This column first appeared in the MySA Express-News on December 11, 2014. Dear Mr. Premack: My wife, as Grantee on a Lady Bird Deed, received ownership of her parents’ house after her mother’s death earlier this year. Her father is in a nursing home with no possibility of ever going home. Intentions are to sell the property upon her father’s death so that his desires of sharing the estate with two other siblings can be accomplished. My question to you is when she sells the pr

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Dear Mr. Premack: I am finally convinced that it is time to make a Will, just for my own peace of mind. I am thinking about writing it for myself, or maybe using an online service. Actually, one of the online services I checked is mostly do-it-yourself anyway. They ask how I want assets divided, and I submit the words for them to include in the Will. I know you are a lawyer and are biased toward telling me to hire a lawyer for this, and I’m willing to be persuaded. Why should