Online Living Will Template
Why can’t blood relatives sign/witness your Living Will?
I’ve been working on my living will the past few hours. I’ve filled out a couple different templates of them, and they all say under the Witness section something to the extent of “I am not related to the patient by blood, marriage, or adoption.” Looked numerous places on online, haven’t been able to find a law that say a blood relative can’t be one of the witnesses. Only place blood relations come up are on the actual living will forms.
So I guess full question would be (A) can blood relatives sign your living will, (B) if no, why not?
I ask because I was hoping to get one or both of my parents or maybe one of my sisters to sign, at least then I know they’re people I can entirely trust to carry out my final wishes.
There are 50 separate sets of probate laws in the u.s. The companies that sell forms try to make them comport with all 50 states. So, there might be some state that has laws invalidating a will if witnessed by a relative. If there is such a state, then you would have to ask a member of the legislature why they passed such a law.
It would be better to not have potential heirs be witnesses because if they are excluded in the will, they might later have an interest in saying that you did not appear to be competent when you excluded them. If they are included, they might have an interest in testifying that you appeared to be competent when you included them.
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