for information,at least in South Carolina Did you know if you have money in the bank , checking, savings, CDs, a power of attorney is no good once the person passes away , you need to have all those accounts setup as PAD or POD , power at death, and it can be split as many ways as you want. And it skips the Will and Probate , and greedy family the money goes straight to whoever had Power at death. tax free. Our New banker lady told us about it last year, We did it, when my dad passed everything went str8 to her . So say you have a partner/husband set it up like that and you will not have fight other greedy family members