Communicate<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\nAnother suggested way is to talk to your children. What does each child really want? Which\u00a0is that one special, sentimental item that they would like to have? If no one else wants it, put it in your Last Will. If others also want it, see if you can work it out by giving another \u201cmust have\u201d item. Do you have a long list?\u00a0Consider a Will clause calling for your personal property to be divided in accordance with a memo that you write and keep with your Last Will. In New Jersey, you can do this. All you have to do is refer to it in your Last Will, and date and sign the memo.<\/p>\n
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It is more important that you keep family harmony after you are gone. It\u2019s more important than your stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Personal Possessions. Those writing a Last Will and Testament, as we say in the law, often overlook \u201cpersonalty\u201d. We tend to focus on the money aspect of our estate: who will get our accounts, our IRA\u2019s, our life insurance policies. We don\u2019t spend time thinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,24,3007],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalcounselnj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}