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[quote=Anonymous]Our attorney had us name a long line of guardians and also temporary guardians if we were incapacitated or it took time to find our guardians. For instance, our first guardians are my sister and her husband and they’re a two hour flight away. Our second guardians are close family friends in our town. My husband and I both have other siblings but our children don’t know them as well. My SIL would be a great guardian but lives in Canada and that feels like too much change.

We originally tried to do wills a decade ago when I was pregnant with the first but got to the guardian state and felt stuck identifying “backups” although it’s unlikely to matter. This time the attorney had us make two lists (separately from one another). The first list was anyone we’d consider naming as guardian and the second was the top 3 qualities we’d want in a guardian. She then instructed us to circle any names on our list that had the qualities and to rank them. Amazingly, our lists (people, qualities, and rank) were almost identical. We’d talked to my sister previously. We then reached out to the friend and said we knew it was a big ask - and there are other names we feel comfortable with - and gave them a few days to get back to us. Ultimately they agreed to it. I would not have held it against them if they did not - we almost didn’t ask in the first time place knowing it’s a lot to ask. [/quote]

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