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Originally Posted by Fuzzy14
This is like saying “my friend that isn’t an electrician isn’t performing electrical work, he’s just helping me wire my basement!”.
Offering will preparation services is giving legal advice. Wills are not some pseudo-legal side project that anyone should be assisting people in preparing. They are complex legal documents, based on hundreds of years of precedent, and risk significant legal consequences if prepared in a negligent manner. That’s the point that Troutman is making. You can have anybody help you prepare a will, and that’s fine. But if they make an error in doing so which results in thousands of dollars of legal fees to resolve (often hundreds of thousands), then the person that is ultimately responsible for that is uninsured.
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If a will is prepared improperly such that it is not valid who could sue?
The author is dead and wouldn’t the plaintiffs be an heir that got screwed out of money as a result of will? And in order to prove you actually were damaged by the improper will wouldn’t you need to show you were entitled to the money in the absense of the negligence, and to do that you would need to prove the will was valid.
So how would sueing a lawyer for a bad will work?