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Why You Need a Will, Even if You and Your Spouse Share Everything

Why You Need a Will, Even if You and Your Spouse Share Everything

If you and your spouse own your home as “husband and wife, tenants by the entirety,” and all of your other assets are jointly held, then upon the death of one spouse the survivor owns 100%. The first to die has no estate to probate. The problem is, who plans to die first?