LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT

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OF

[name]

I, [name], residing at [address], do

hereby make, publish and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament and hereby

revoke any and all Wills and Codicils at any time heretofore made by me.

FIRST:

I declare that I am not married and have no children.

SECOND:

I direct that the expenses of my funeral and burial [or cremation] be paid out

of my estate in such amount as my Personal Representative may deem proper and without

regard to any limitation in the applicable law or rule of court as to the amount of such

expenses and without the necessity of court approval.

I direct that (a) all estate, inheritance, succession and other death taxes and duties

occasioned by my death, whether incurred with respect to property passing by this Will

or otherwise, but excluding any generation-skipping tax, and (b) all cost of packing,

shipping, insurance and other charges incidental to the distribution of any tangible

personal property herein, shall be paid by my Personal Representative out of the principal

of my residuary estate (as hereinafter defined) with no right of reimbursement from any

recipient of such property.

THIRD:

I hereby confirm my intention that the beneficial interest in all property, real or

personal, tangible or intangible (including joint checking or saving accounts in any bank

or savings and loan association or credit union), which is registered or held, at the time of

my death, jointly in the names of myself and any other person (including tenancy by the

entireties, but excluding any tenancy in common), shall pass by right of survivorship or

operation of law and outside the terms of this Will to such other person if he or she

survives me. To the extent that my intention may be defeated by any rule of law, I give or

devise and bequeath all such jointly held property to such other person or persons who

shall survive me.

FOURTH

[optional]

:

I give, devise and bequeath to

[name] [specifically list

whom you want to leave things to and what you want to leave to them] absolutely [or in

fee simple absolute] if s/he survives me.

FIFTH:

I give and bequeath all of my tangible personal property, not otherwise

disposed of, to ____________________________ [name of individual] if s/he survives

me. If s/he fails to survive me, I give and bequeath my tangible personal property to

those of _____________________________________[names of individuals] as survive

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me, in equal shares as they shall agree or, failing agreement, then in such a manner as my

Personal Representative shall determine.

SIXTH:

All the rest, residue and remainder of my property and estate, of whatever

character, whensoever acquired and wheresoever situated and to which I or my estate

may be in any manner entitled at the time of my death, including any property or estate as

to which I may have any power of disposition or appointment and further including any

bequest which may have lapsed due to failure of a legatee to survive me (all said property

and estate being herein referred to as my “residuary estate”), shall be disposed of as

follows:

I give the residuary of my estate in fee simple absolute to , if s/he

survives me and if not, to .

SEVENTH:

If any person who shall become entitled to receive property under this Will

is a minor at the time distribution is to be made, I authorize the gift to be made under the

______________________________[your state] Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, or the

corresponding statute of any other state which might be applicable, and I authorize my

Personal Representative to receive such property as custodian for such minor or to name

as custodian an adult, a guardian of the minor or a trust company. The receipt of such

custodian shall constitute a full acquittance to my Personal Representative.

EIGHTH:

I nominate and appoint , as my Personal

Representative of this my Last Will and Testament. Should s/he be unable or unwilling to

serve, or fail to qualify within a reasonable time after receiving notice of his/her

nomination, I nominate and appoint , as his/her successor,

and I direct that neither my Personal Representative nor his/her successor be required to

give bond or undertaking or security thereon in any jurisdiction.

My Personal Representative shall have full discretionary power, in addition to any

powers provided by law, without order or approval of any court, to take any action

desirable for administration of my estate, including the power to sell at public or private

sale, any real or personal property belonging to my estate at whatever prices and upon

what ever terms s/he shall deem advisable, to retain, invest or reinvest in any property

without responsibility for diversification and without being restricted by any rule of law

or court limiting investments, to hold securities in the name of the nominee, to

compromise any claims to the same extent I could, if living, and to distribute in kind or in

money or partly in each, even if shares be composed differently.

NINTH:

(A) For the purposes of the Will, other than the appointment of my Personal

Representative, if a legatee shall die with me in a common accident or disaster, or under

such circumstances as to make it impossible or difficult to determine which of us died

first or in the event that any such legatee shall die within thirty (30) full days of my death,

then such legatee shall be considered to have predeceased me. This clause shall not apply

in any case where its application would cause any provision of this Will, which would

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otherwise be valid, to be void under any applicable rule against perpetuities, rule limiting

suspension of the power of alienation or other similar rule.

(B) No successor Personal Representative under this Will shall be liable for

any act or omission of a predecessor Personal Representative nor shall s/he be obliged to

inquire into the validity or propriety of any such act or omission by his or her

predecessor. Any such successor Personal Representative shall be entitled to accept as

conclusive any accounting and statement of assets furnished to such successor by his or

her predecessor, and shall further be entitled to receipt only for those assets included in

such statement.

In Witness Whereof,

I have set my hand to this my Last Will and Testament and on the

bottom of each of the preceding and the following pages I have affixed my

signature for better identification this day of , 20 .

[signature]

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WITNESS ATTESTATION

The forgoing instrument was signed, published and declared by

as his/her Last Will and Testament in the presence of us and we, at his/her request, and in

his/her presence, and the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as

witnesses the day and year written above.

NAME ADDRESS

Signed

Printed

Signed

Printed

Signed

Printed

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SELF-PROVING ATTESTATION

STATE OF )

) ss:

COUNTY OF )

Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared

___________________________________, __________________________________,

_________________________________ and _________________________________,

known to me to be the Testator and the witnesses, respectively, whose names are signed

to the attached or foregoing instrument and, all of these persons being by me first duly

sworn, _______________, the Testator, declared to me and to the witnesses in my

presence that said instrument is his Last Will and Testament and that he had willingly

signed or directed another to sign the same for him, and executed it in the presence of

said witnesses as his free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed; that said

witnesses stated before me that the foregoing Will was executed and acknowledged by

the Testator as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of said witnesses who, in his

presence and at his request, and in the presence of each other, did subscribe their names

thereto as attesting witnesses on the day of the date of said Will, and that the Testator, at

the time of the execution of said Will, was over the age of eighteen (18) years and of

sound and disposing mind and memory.

_______________________________________________, Testator

_______________________________________________, Witness

Subscribed, sworn and acknowledged before me by _______________________,

the Testator, subscribed and sworn before me by _______________________________,

___________________________ and _________________________, witnesses this

________ day of ________.

__________________________________

Notary Public

My Commission Expires ______________

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