What You Can't Do in Your Will Wills aren't the place to handle certain kinds of property or issues.
Wills are wonderful, simple, inexpensive ways to address many people's estate planning needs.
But they can't do it all. Here are some things you shouldn't expect to accomplish in your will. A will provision leaving your share would have no effect unless all joint tenants died simultaneously. Property you've transferred to a living trust. Proceeds of a life insurance policy for which you've named a beneficiary.