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Program provides free wills to vets, first responders

Sponsored by the Carbon County Bar Association and Ballard Spahr LLP, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Young Lawyers Division is volunteering its time to bring the Wills for Heroes program to the area beginning at 11 a.m. Saturdayat the American Legion Lehighton, 381 Bridge St., Lehighton.

Wills for Heroes is a free and easy service that provides wills, living wills, health care and financial powers of attorney to first responders and their spouses or partners, and sworn personnel and Pennsylvania military veterans and their spouses or partners (proof of affiliation or DD214 will be requested at the event).Appointments for each person last about one hour, but each person will have notarized legal documents at the end of it.Spouses will have back-to-back appointments, and the computer will automatically schedule a second appointment. There is no need to schedule a separate appointment.If a person's estate exceeds $750,000, this service is unavailable due to the complexity of the estate and the limited time to complete the legal documents. For determining if an estate is more than $750,000, add together total cash, personal property, stock and bonds, real estate equity, savings and cash value of a whole/universal life insurance policy only (not the amount of the insurance policy).Schedule appointments early, because this event is sure to fill up fast. Appointments must be scheduled at

www.pabar.org/wfh. The password is: WFHCRBN. No-shows are strongly discouraged.For questions, contact Adam Weaver at

attyweaver@icloud.com or Gabriele Miller-Wagner at

wfh.gmillerwagner@yahoo.com. For more information about the Wills for Heroes Foundation, go to

www.willsforheroes.org.