From Season 2 of “The Office,” Dwight Schrute explains why he doesn’t tip the delivery person:
Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.
Well, do it yourself isn’t always the best thing. I tried to fix my leaky bathroom sink once before I realized I was potentially way in over my head, and the money I paid the plumber was well worth the potential disaster I avoided and could have caused by my impression of Bob Vila.
My colleague Jen Sawday‘s blog “The Legal Elephant” latest post illustrates her experience as a paralegal professor and one of her students using a computer program to create estate planning documents:
While I had instructed that the durable power of attorney be effective upon incapacity and WillMaker had a checkbox for this option — he noted that the final durable power of attorney was effective immediately. Had he not reviewed the document he generated, he would have been in for a very rude surprise later had he drafted this kind of power of attorney for himself. He then played around with the program a bit more and wanted to check out the trust module. He then realized that the package, marked all new and updated from before, did not even include a component to draft a living trust! He was shocked. His words to me last night were, “And it was version 2.10 for crying out loud!”
Save you and your family the potential trouble of automated estate plans, and consult with an experienced estate planning attorney: it could actually save you money.
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Excellent reference to the Office — I need to do this! (Not make references to the Office, although that is always appreciated, but hire Jenni to make my will!)
I was talking to a classmate of mine who was working for an EP attorney, and he told me that his boss didn’t create an estate plan for the longest time. You’d think that would be the first thing they do, but life gets in the way and you never get around to do it.