# How will this meeting with lawyer go? (wills and car titles)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-this-meeting-with-lawyer-go-wills-and-car-titles/1021468 "2025-07-29T14:54:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-this-meeting-with-lawyer-go-wills-and-car-titles/1021468/41 "2025-08-23T16:51:15Z")

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Thought I’d throw this in. I found a free site called 12Law where you can draft your own will without needing an attorney. The forms are written with your state in mind. In the case of MN, all that’s required are two unrelated witnesses and a notary. You can also designate an executor. The site gets excellent reviews.

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**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-this-meeting-with-lawyer-go-wills-and-car-titles/1021468/42 "2025-08-24T00:20:23Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> The site gets excellent reviews.

From the testators or the executors?

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**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-this-meeting-with-lawyer-go-wills-and-car-titles/1021468/43 "2025-08-24T00:57:51Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> My late wife would’ve been the attorney you or you both might meet with. She’d be screaming now that you are about to utterly fuck yourself by going into a joint meeting utterly unprepared. You will never be able to walk your wife’s expectations back from where they’re about to be staked into the ground.

I know it’s a bit late for the OP, but I’d even go so far as to say that the proper thing for an attorney to do, when a husband and wife pair come in to talk about the husband’s will, would be to invite (insist) the wife to step outside. And vice versa.

It’s a confidentiality issue. Never mind spousal privilege. It’s a simple matter of who the client is, and making sure the client gets candid advice or at least an opportunity to first make an informed decision on whether they really want their spouse present.

The folly isn’t going into a joint meeting unprepared, it’s going into a joint meeting period. And a good attorney should see it coming and nip it in the bud.

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