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Winter2024 · ‎09-20-2023

FROM THE ARTICLE: There’s more to it than who will inherit your belongings.

🗣By Patricia Amend, AARP. Published September 12, 2023.

*** Do YOU have a will? 🤔

Comments are welcome! ***

https://www.aarp.org/money/investing/info-2023/top-facts-about-writing-a-will.html

Winter2024 · ‎09-20-2023

I had thought putting mine in my bank Safety Deposit Box was the "wise" thing to do. But it is NOT!

FROM THE ARTICLE: If you put your will in a bank safe deposit box that only you can access, your family might need to obtain a court order to retrieve it.

Nicole 👵

Tempest332 · ‎10-03-2023

Are those safety deposit boxes really secure? I still understand the bank possibly holds another Key, I paid a deposit in case the lock needs "drilled out", & I believe the boxes are removable from the bank.

Winter2024 · ‎06-28-2024

@Tempest332 , in life there will SOMETIMES be a DISHONEST bank employee = probably not, my answer to your question. Nicole 👵

[*** @Tempest332 wrote: Are those safety deposit boxes really secure? I still understand the bank possibly holds another Key, I paid a deposit in case the lock needs "drilled out", & I believe the boxes are removable from the bank. ***]

nctarheel · ‎09-21-2023

@Winter2024 wrote:
(9/20/23)

I had thought putting mine in my bank Safety Deposit Box was the "wise" thing to do. But it is NOT!

FROM THE ARTICLE: If you put your will in a bank safe deposit box that only you can access, your family might need to obtain a court order to retrieve it.

Nicole 👵

Hey Nicole!!!

You can also authorize a designee to be able to have access to your bank safe deposit box.

I already have read this article as I am an AARP member.

Thanks for highlighting it.

Most people don't know crap about wills and such.