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Help grow Emanuel’s endowments by having your will written or updated. Did you know more than 60% of American adults don’t have a will? Barbara Ruhe, a Wethersfield lawyer and member of Grace Lutheran, Hartford, is drafting wills for member and friends of Emanuel, the majority of her fee is being donated to benefit Emanuel’s endowments.

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Who Needs a Will?
Everyone!

Why?

If you don’t have a will, the state of Connecticut will decide who gets your property and assets. The State can do this by way of “intestacy” laws. Connecticut’s intestacy law gives your property to your closest relatives, beginning with your spouse and children. If you have neither a spouse nor children, your grandchildren or your parents will get your property. This list continues with increasingly distant relatives, including siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and your spouse’s relatives. If the court exhausts this list to find that you have no living relatives by blood or marriage, the state will take your property.

People with children should have a will to make sure that their children have a guardian if both parents should die and so that the children are protected economically.
Young people should have a will, even if they think they have nothing, because should something happen to them it would make life easier for the parents or siblings who survive them.
Older folks should have a will so they can be sure that what they want done with their assets is done.

If you have a will, you should know that wills become invalid if you got married since you made the will, if you either gave birth or adopted a child since you made the will, or if you got divorced since you made the will.

A will is not that complicated. You do not have to list all your assets in the document. You just need to know where you want your things to go.

Making a will is an opportunity for you to think about your church and organizations that you would like to remember and support with a bequest.

Every should also have a LIVING WILL and HEALTH CARE POWER OF ATTORNEY should the time come when they need someone else to make medical decisions. A living will lets your family and medical providers know what you would want done should you become unable to make that decision.

And, everyone should have a DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEYshould something happen and should they need some one to take care of their affairs if they are unexpectedly away for a period of time or if they become disabled. This document allows some one you trust and chose to take care of your affairs, rather than someone appointed by the Probate Court.

Click here to download the information form and get started.

For more information, contact:

Barbara Ruhe, Esq.
Attorney at Law
915 Silas Deane Hwy
Wethersfield, CT 06109

P: (860) 513-5650
F: (860) 513-5654
E: bjruhe@snet.net