From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 16:48:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12634106566B for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:48:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC4D8FC18 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17250 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2010 16:48:50 -0000 Received: from dsl081-163-112.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO ringbill.gull.us) ([64.81.163.112]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2010 16:48:50 -0000 Received: from alphonse ([192.168.10.9] helo=alphonse.gull.us) by ringbill.gull.us with esmtpa (Exim 4.71 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3cf-000EaS-7h for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:48:49 -0700 Message-Id: <21FD439F-628C-4546-AF54-192E5F80BC2A@gull.us> From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <20100805012556.GA17100@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:48:47 -0700 References: <20100803203358.15a79198@asus64> <20100804185116.GB15730@thought.org> <20100804210109.GE66325@comcast.net> <20100805012556.GA17100@thought.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Subject: Re: OT: Open source will & testament software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:48:51 -0000 >>> >>> =Or=, anything handwritten is likely to stand up in court. Careful. That's not true in every state. The technical term for this is a "holographic will," which may make it easier to look up. Where I live, in Washington, such wills are not legally valid.