Kaufman also recounts how a couple who had been working on a new estate plan for about three years suddenly realized they were not happy with the guardianship provisions in their existing wills. The impetus: A long trip they had just embarked on without the kids. Kaufman wrote codicils addressing the issue and emailed them to the couple, who stopped at a bank in a town along the way and signed them before a notary and witnesses.
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