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Show 9f DO-IT-YOURS- ELF m FINE GRANDFATHER CLOCK KITS STARTING UNDER 200 (including West German movement AMKAMcmcAMonnaA ACCEPTED auto dealers' convention, Heirloom quality Solid 3" hardwoods: black walnut. cherry, mahogany. oak Easy to assemble parts pre-cSolid brass West German chiming movements Money back guarantee Factory direct prices Prompt shipment Write for free coior catalog one-thir- EMPEROR CLOCK COMPANY WORLD'S OF Jones was killed in a car crash. Under Pennsyld vania law, there being no will, of his property went to his to the children widow, two-thirafter taxes. For Jones's widow, the settlement was a nightmare. She could not control her children's money without, as guardian, putting up a bond costing $860 per year for 10 years. To administer the estate, she had to put up another bond that cost $1150 per year. How simple it would have been had Jones left the entire estate to her or put part of it in trust to educate the children. Her husband hadn't intended to create problems for her. He had simply procrastinated. There are certain popular misconceptions about wills. One is that they are final and difficult to change. But changing a will is easy. For minor changes, you simply make a codicil (a fancy legal word for a postscript). If the change is major, make a new will. Another erroneous notion is that the contents of a will are public knowledge. Wrong again nobody can find out about your will until you die. It is not recorded in the courthouse, and lawyers' lips are sealed like those of a priest in a confessional. The most fallacious notion is that lawyers gouge you when you make a will. Yet, depending on where you live and how complicated the document is, the lawyer's charge ranges from $50 to $100. But, you say, the lawyer who draws the will also handles the estate and then socks the client. That's wrong, too. The lawyer's charge for handling an estate, depending on the locality, varies from 3 to 5 percent of the gross value of the estate. Mary Smith of Rochester, N.Y., was taking her first flight to Europe. The night before she left, she wrote to her older sister, Helen: "If my plane goes down in the drink or a hijacker gets me, leave everything to you and brother Mike. This includes my share in our property, whatever stock own, etc." Fortunately for Helen, nothing happened to Mary on her trip If something had, a large part of her estate would have gone to her father, who had no need of Mary's money If Mary had gone to a lawyer in stead of attempting to write her own will, she could have made sure her intentions would be carried out Here are some questions frequently asked about wills: LARGEST MANUFACTURER GRANDFATHER CLOCKS Dept. 745 Emperor Industrial Park Fairhope. Alabama 36632 Wilford Kirton jr., lawyer for the church, files one Howard in 7976. Existence of "will" Hughes conflicting documents led to gat ion. Millions face a different will problem not leaving any at all. AWmsaWw To AinH Trouble by George G. Coughlin I people know that it's to make a will, yet authorities say that 60 percent of Americans die without doing so. Why do people put off making a will? In part, human psychology is a deterrent: Making a will has something to do with planning to die. In Most From peasant to classic to ruffles all the top styles are here! to bow-tie- s All Printed Pattern, Misses Sizes easy! 4771 Patterns are $1.50 each. Add 40$ each for first-claairmail, handling. Send to: Parade Patterns, Box 144, Old Chelsea Sta., N. Y., N. Y. 10011. Please allow 3 weeks for delivery. (General Offices: 243 W. 17 St., N. Y., N. Y. 10011.) N. Y., Pa., III., Ca. residents add appropriate sales tax. 1979 NEEDLECHAFT CATALOG 200 designs to order 75$ 118 CROCHET WITH SQUARES $1.00 119 ART OF FLOWER CROCHET . Si 00 Add 25$ each for postage, handling. George G. Coughlin, an attorney in Savannah, Ga., is a past president of the New York State Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Probate Counsel. addition, we are uncertain about what to put in a will, so we procrastinate. We know it's unfair to our family to die without a will, which can be tailor-mad- e to fit our particular case. In the absence of a will, the state makes one for us, which may not be in our family's best interest. For example, Robert Jones, an auto dealer in Pennsylvania, was 50, married, with a boy of 10 and a girl of 12. He once told a lawyer friend he'd like to make a will, but he kept postponing his trip to the lawyer's office. Then it happened. En route to an I continued 12 IARADl OCIOBER 22 IW |