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Do I Need a Will? (Spoiler: Yes, You Idiot)
9 min readImagine this: You die on a random Tuesday. Maybe it’s a car accident, maybe it’s a rogue blood clot, maybe you just eat the wrong gas station sushi...
Everyone has heard the words “will” and “trust” in the same breath, usually from a lawyer, a nervous parent, or a TV commercial featuring a silver-...
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State Guides
What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Wyoming: The 2026 Guide Wyoming is the least populous state in the country. Fewer than 600,000 people acr...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Wisconsin: The 2026 Guide In Wisconsin, the cheese is shared equally. That’s practically a state motto — ...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in West Virginia: The 2026 Guide You’ve lived on that land outside Morgantown your whole life. You know ever...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Vermont: The 2026 Guide It’s October in Vermont. The maples are doing their annual performance — forty sh...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Utah: The 2026 Guide You have five kids. This is not unusual in Utah — the state has the highest birth ra...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in South Dakota: The 2026 Guide South Dakota is the tax haven that nobody talks about at parties — but every...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in South Carolina: The 2026 Guide In South Carolina, sweet tea is non-negotiable. You drink it at every meal...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Rhode Island: The 2026 Guide Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union. You can drive across it in ...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Oregon: The 2026 Guide You bought that bungalow in Portland in 2014 for $285,000. At the time, everyone t...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Oklahoma: The 2026 Guide The wind comes sweeping down the plain, and honestly, so do the inheritance comp...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in North Dakota: The 2026 Guide Picture this: It’s February in North Dakota. The temperature is -22°F, the w...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Hawaii: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Hawaii. You bought a condo on Maui back before prices wen...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Kansas: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Kansas. The wheat fields are golden. The sky is enormous....
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Iowa: The 2026 Guide Picture this: It’s January in Iowa. You’ve died. It’s minus fifteen with a wind chil...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Idaho: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Idaho. You and your spouse have been farming potatoes in t...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Delaware: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Delaware — the corporate law capital of the world. More...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Connecticut: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Connecticut. You lived in Greenwich or Westport or o...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Colorado: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Colorado. You’ve got a ski cabin in Summit County — you...
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What Happens If You Die Without a Will in Arkansas: The 2026 Guide Picture this: You die in Arkansas. Your family gathers, grief-stricken, and star...
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Comparisons
You’ve been meaning to make a will for a while now. Something finally pushed you to actually look into it — a new baby, a birthday with a zero at t...
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