Overview

• The national September campaign offers up to 50% fee reductions, free legal advice, extended notary hours and preferential attention for older adults.
• Specialists emphasize that a will remains useful without large property because it can direct bank accounts, vehicles and items with personal value.
• A testament allows naming heirs or legatees, appointing an executor (albacea) and designating a guardian for minor children.
• Without a will, estates move to judicial intestate succession, a slower and costlier process in which the law prioritizes closest relatives.
• Animals cannot inherit directly, but a testator can assign a trusted caregiver and earmark funds to ensure a pet’s ongoing care.