Bankruptcy grace period

[Justin Schwartz]

Of course people do this with contracts all the time. It's pretty unusual 
too involve a lawyer in that, even when it is written. (After all, everytime 
you buy something, there's a contract.) With a simple will, you can almost 
certainly do it yourself. No state that I know of requires that will be 
prepared by a lawyer. You have to make sure you comply with the witness and 
other requirements. If you have any  significant assets or want to do 
anything fancy, it's probably best not to try to do it yourself. If it's: I 
leave everything to my wife, and, if she does first, to my kids, maybe a 
do-it-yourself job is OK. However, apparently simple dispositions can have 
startling unanticipated and probably undesired effects. I could tell you 
stories . . . . But it's another reason to think about seeing a lawyer.

--jks


>
>
> >>People talk about professionalization and regulation of law and
> >>medicine like it's a bad thing.
> >>
> >On the other hand, the professional ideology can & does often limit
> >the extent of professionals' solidarity with the working class, even
> >in cases in which professionals have actually become proletarianized
> >to a large extent.
>
>What I find annoying are the services which don't need to be handled by a
>professional, and are much more expensive than they need to be because
>professionals are the only ones "authorized" to do them.  For example, you
>should be able to write your own will without the help of a lawyer.  Most
>of the time it can be done with a fill-in-the-blank form.  There are lots
>of other examples, not limited to the legal profession.
>
>Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole-hill,  But in such cases
>credentialism is not a good thing.
>
>Brett
>

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