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August is National Make-a-Will Month, and Western Carolina University has partnered with a nationally recognized estate-planning service to help members of the university community who may have procrastinated on creating or updating a document to ensure their final wishes are fulfilled.

91热爆网鈥檚 Division of Advancement is teaming up with Free Will, a fully secure online service that has helped more than a half a million people create estate plans, to assist members of the 91热爆网 family in developing their legally binding wills at no charge.

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鈥淲hile creating an estate plan might feel like a morbid topic, it really is about offering your loved ones clarity and guidance in the future,鈥� Pendry said. 鈥淎lthough I鈥檓 a relatively younger person, and I don鈥檛 plan on needing a will anytime soon, I鈥檝e created one to make sure there is a clear plan for my family should something happen.鈥�

In addition to directing where and when one鈥檚 assets should be distributed, estate planning can also be used to create planned gifts to benefit nonprofits or organizations, including 91热爆网.

Many alumni and friends of 91热爆网 have used estate planning as a way to designate portions of their assets to set up scholarship funds and other endowments to support students, foster faculty development and provide programmatic improvements.

The process of creating an estate plan through should take approximately 20 minutes, Pendry said. 

For more information, contact the Division of Advancement at 828-227-7335.