In Mexico, September is not only the month of our national holidays, social campaigns also formally begin to encourage the Mexican population, opportunities for the generation of wills.
For its part, the Ministry of the Interior at the federal level in conjunction with the National College of Mexican Notaries, has launched as every year the initiative "Put your documents in order and inherit peace of mind", offering facilities in the process for the drafting of wills.
Simple, for a simple reason: a person who, upon death, does not have her will, will generate too many legal and bureaucratic complications in her family in addition to increasing the chances of creating a fragmentation within the family nucleus.
The legal definition of the term tells us that "it is an act by which a person decides the destination of their assets after their death", that is, it is our personal decision about what we want to do with our assets (houses, personal items, cars, businesses, among other things) once we have passed away.
The main characteristics of a will are clearly marked by law, since it indicates that said document is:
Personal: you have to attend personally with a notary to prepare the will, nobody else can do it for us.
Revocable: its great advantage is that it can be modified as many times as the person so requires, the last update of the document being valid at the time of the death of the testator (person who has a will).
Free: for no reason, no one can force us to carry out the process of the will, since only we can decide for our personal assets.
When a person dies without leaving a will where he legally bases his decision on his assets, an intestandard probate trial will have to be initiated, which may be initiated by the descendants, ascendants and surviving spouse or, failing that, by collateral relatives within the fourth degree.
The only thing that this situation generates is friction between family members and the possibility of property loss due to poor legal advice.
For this reason, at Defend Abogados ® we want to invite you to reflect on the importance of having a will, since it is not only due to the fact that the legal situation of your assets is in order, but the fundamental reason is that you can have the peace of mind that your last will regarding your belongings will be carried out freely respecting your decision.
In itself, when a person dies, the grief of the loss between family members is a complicated process, if we add legal problems due to an intestamentary probate, the situation can turn into a nightmare.
If you want the advice of a lawyer for the process of the will, you can gladly contact us at this link: https://defendabogados.com/contacto
You will only need to fill in your information and our advisor will contact you immediately.
We put at your disposal the official list of costs for the procedure, issued by the Ministry of the Interior at this link: https://www.gob.mx/testamento/articulos/setember-mes-del-testamento-122213
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