• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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    1 year ago

    Make sure you add a statement of wishes to your will, especially look into your digital legacy. My will was straightforward but my statement of wishes was lengthy and the poor lawyer had never had to deal with anything like it before so had to consult a senior partner. In the end they just copy and pasted it over - money for old rope.

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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        1 year ago

        It’s quite lengthy.

        It covers my digital legacy so gives the password to my password manager and a list of key accounts that need shuttering, especially my Wikipedia admin account.

        Then various classes of items to different places - academic books to the university library, others to specialist collections, general fiction off to one person, comics to another and on.

        If it’s something you are interested in, you should read around on the subject as various guides give you examples that may be closer to your circumstances.

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          1 year ago

          can you dm me your will id like to use it for reference you seem to very knowledgable

          • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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            I’ve rather not as there’s a tonne of personal information in there and little that would necessarily be relevant to you.

            My best advice to anyone is search for “statement of wishes” and then “digital legacy” and that will get you the guides I used. I can’t claim to have any greater knowledge and experience than they provided, just enough to befuddle a junior lawyer.

              • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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                It would make no sense and I doubt it’d be of much use to you. You are better off following the guides - I did nothing clever or innovative other than read and follow them.