Will - example Mrs. Goddard had a number of wills drawn up
throughout her life. Whenever a change happened relating to her
property ownings or relationships with people, Mrs. Goddard
created a new will directing how her property should be
distributed after her death. Each will completely replaced and
nullified the previous will in existence. In the last valid will
drawn up before her death, Mrs. Goddard directed that her
property be distributed as follows: her house to her daughter,
her personal property to her son, and twenty lucrative land
holdings throughout the country to a close friend who took care
of her in the last years of her life. Although Mrs. Goddard's
son and daughter would have loved to own the twenty pieces of
real estate, they both understood why their mother chose to draw
up her last will as she did.