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What are the most common reasons wills are challenged?

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What are the most common reasons wills are challenged?

The most common mistake a person makes in writing a will is probably when the person writes the will himself or herself. What a person who is preparing his or her own will often forgets is that some of the estate that he or she has is not subject to the will, and therefore it passes outright; not subject to creditors' claims, not subject to the payment of estate tax and the like.Other mistakes are certainly less fundamental, but failure to name a qualified executor would certainly rank among those that make a will deficient.

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