Updating your Will After Divorce Executor Designation You will want to make sure your ex-spouse is not listed as your executor in your will. The executor or personal representative is in charge of carrying out the terms listed in your will. If your ex is still listed...
Updating Your Will After Divorce Naming guardians for your minor child Many parents with young children will create wills in order to designate a guardian. This person would be appointed by the court to be responsible for taking care of your children if both parents...
Updating Your Will After Divorce Leaving Property Pt. 3 – In states where leaving property to ex-spouses is not possible, the property would usually be dispersed in the same way it would if your ex-spouse had passed before you. The alternate (contingent)...
Updating Your Will After Divorce Leaving Property Pt. 2 A lot of states revoke any gifts the will you made when you were married would leave to your ex-spouse. In California, both a divorce and annulment of marriage revokes the bequests to an ex-spouse in your will....
Updating your will after divorce: Revoke your old estate planning documents and get a new one First and foremost you should tear up your old will or living trust to revoke them. Then get newly updated documents. If you never had a will, it may be in your best interest...
