This may come as shock for some but wills are not permanent.

It’s reasonable if you thought they were, with all the pomp and circumstance around their execution but they’re not carved in stone tablets Sometimes just printed on a heavier paper stock.

Great care is taken for the will-maker to initial every page and sign the last, with each witness then following suit. There is often a fancy looking cover page and a special blue corner stapled into place.

The carefully signed will is then stored in the lawyer’s locked and fire-proof safe, if not taken by the will maker to put into a safe deposit box.

But the very next day, you can scrawl, “This is my last will. I leave everything to my illicit lover, Trixie Tinglebottom” on a napkin, your signature witnessed by two folks who are not Trixie, and all that pomp and circumstance is erased. No lawyer or notary involvement. No special paper, fancy cover page or special blue corner. No multiple pages of legalese. And you needn’t notify........

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