Legal Commentary

Thank you so very much to the Prawfsblawg gang, especially Dan, for the wonderful opportunity to guest blog.  It was a blast! 

I'll make my final post a bit of a mea culpa.  I've recently been motivated by the impending birth of our daughter (and sheer embarrassment) to actually sit my lawyerly self down and draft wills, health care proxies, powers of attorney, etc.  You know, those types of documents.  For months (years?), I had been meaning to undertake this task, but somehow never quite got around to it.  I'm not even a procrastinator by nature--it always seemed as if there was something slightly more compelling to address first.  But once I sat down to read through many of the online forms, I found the process to be quite amusing.  The language of several forms reminded me of a wonderful quote from the movie Alice in Wonderland:  "Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction." 

In recruiting various witnesses for these documents, however, I discovered that I was actually in good company in my prolonged failure to find the "will" to tackle my "will."  Ironically, many other prawfs with whom I spoke mentioned that they were also in the very same situation.  I suspect that if there was a plague upon Prawfs a good number of us might go gently (but perhaps with an outdated will) into that good night.  So to those who find themselves in that situation, I wish you "Good Will Hunting"!  And, of course, a convenient Notary Public.