Will and Codicil

Think of the flat in Kharghar or Borivali that your grandparents bought with a lifetime of savings. One day someone will ask who gets it, and the answer will depend on a few sheets of paper, or on the absence of them. A will is the only document that lets a person decide that in advance, and the only one that does nothing until the maker is dead. What must those sheets contain, who must see them signed, and what do you do when the maker changes his mind a year later?

In two minutes

A will is a person's legal declaration of what is to happen to his property after his death; it is signed by him, attested by two witnesses, freely revocable until death, and a codicil is a later instrument that explains, alters or adds to it and forms part of the same will.

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