Please critique my sites

[FatJackSprat]

Does anyone have any suggestions about improving my sites?

California

(The others can be reached from the 'More States' page)

The intestacy calculators at my sites give very useful information.

The results of dying without a will are largely misunderstood and I believe that this is first time anyone has put together something that allows you to so easily see what happens. You would otherwise have to pay a lawyer to get these answers. (I am also a lawyer)

I have received a great deal of good advice from ATOT in the past three years and I'm wondering what people think would make other use these sites.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Arkitech]

warning:

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
warning:

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

LOL...

I think the possessions would go to charity if a will wasn't made...
Though I might be wrong...

 

[woowoo]

The estate would go to "Probate"
A judge allows time for creditors to petition the estate.
Then the judge decides on where the money goes.
(Like family, kids...)

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: woowoo
The estate would go to "Probate"
A judge allows time for creditors to petition the estate.
Then the judge decides on where the money goes.
(Like family, kids...)

semi-correct.

Every state has statutes that determine the order in how property is split up. So yes, while the judge is deciding, it's not really his choice.

 

[FatJackSprat]

I can see the advantages of this, is anyone availabel to man the phones over the next day or so?

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat
I can see the advantages of this, is anyone availabel to man the phones over the next day or so?

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

Man... where's your black avatar? :laugh:

 

[FatJackSprat]

Originally posted by: Ricemarine

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat
I can see the advantages of this, is anyone availabel to man the phones over the next day or so?

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

Man... where's your black avatar? :laugh:

It was a tossup between the Zombie and this TechGuy for scary avatars, but the TechGuy won in the end.

 

[FatJackSprat]

Please see the first post since I've edited it. Thanks.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
warning:

if you visit any of those sites within 24 hours you will receive a phone call. after you get the call you will die a horrible death and fatjacksprat will inherit all of your possesions

you have been warned

******! i went to those sites! ahhh!


but thanks for the info its good to have. everyone should have a will!

 

[JulesMaximus]

You become worm food...nothing else matters at that point.

 

[RKS]

As an attorney I would be concerned about malpractice suits. I think some kind of a disclaimer is needed. "advice on this site is for informational use only, blah, blah, blah..."

BTW: every probate item goes through probate court. You have either testate or intestate succession. As mentioned the statutes not judges determine who gets what when intestate items are concerned.

 

[FatJackSprat]

Originally posted by: RKS
As an attorney I would be concerned about malpractice suits. I think some kind of a disclaimer is needed. "advice on this site is for informational use only, blah, blah, blah..."

That's great advice, thank you.

I have actually licensed all of these to a company that is owned by my wife. The "Terms of Use" tells visitors exactly who they're dealing with and that they are not getting any legal advice.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: RKS
As an attorney I would be concerned about malpractice suits. I think some kind of a disclaimer is needed. "advice on this site is for informational use only, blah, blah, blah..."

BTW: every probate item goes through probate court. You have either testate or intestate succession. As mentioned the statutes not judges determine who gets what when intestate items are concerned.

he has it under "Terms of Use" but you'd actually have to click on the link to read it. Not being a CA attorney, I can't speak to whether that's ok with the Bar there.

Being a DC attorney, I can't tell you whether it's ok with the Bar here either because, frankly, I don't care.

Decent informational site, though lets face it, the people who die intestate are likely not surfing around looking for intestacy laws.

 

[FatJackSprat]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
You become worm food...nothing else matters at that point.

Not to you, but, if you run through one of these caclulators, you can see that your spouse is often left with just a portion of your property.

While you're pushing daisies, your wife or husband might be trying to figure which of your possessions will be sold to pay other family members their share of your estate.

That kind of matters.

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus

Originally posted by: RKS
As an attorney I would be concerned about malpractice suits. I think some kind of a disclaimer is needed. "advice on this site is for informational use only, blah, blah, blah..."

BTW: every probate item goes through probate court. You have either testate or intestate succession. As mentioned the statutes not judges determine who gets what when intestate items are concerned.

he has it under "Terms of Use" but you'd actually have to click on the link to read it. Not being a CA attorney, I can't speak to whether that's ok with the Bar there.

Being a DC attorney, I can't tell you whether it's ok with the Bar here either because, frankly, I don't care.

Decent informational site, though lets face it, the people who die intestate are likely not surfing around looking for intestacy laws.

It not the people who die intestate that are/were concerned. It's the remaining pirhanas wanting the estate that are looking for legal recourse.

 

[FatJackSprat]

Originally posted by: RKS


It not the people who die intestate that are/were concerned. It's the remaining pirhanas wanting the estate that are looking for legal recourse.

That's exactly right - so many people just assume that they know what will happen they don't bother getting the right answers or getting a simple will prepared.

I've seen other sites that tell you "If you have a spouse and children..." (just like the home pages) but nobody wants to read about what happens.

I was hoping that putting the laws into an interactive format people would actually take some interest in learning about what happens.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
You become worm food...nothing else matters at that point.

Not to you, but, if you run through one of these caclulators, you can see that your spouse is often left with just a portion of your property.

While you're pushing daisies, your wife or husband might be trying to figure which of your possessions will be sold to pay other family members their share of your estate.

That kind of matters.

I know, I was just messing with you.

Everything goes to my wife. We also have a $500,000 life insurance policy on each of us so if she goes I get a half million and if I go she gets the same. I'm worth more dead than alive!!! WOO HOO!!! :laugh:

 

[FatJackSprat]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus


I'm worth more dead than alive!!! WOO HOO!!! :laugh:

I right there with you on that one

Thanks for looking at my sites.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Are they easy to understand? Are they at all interesting? (When I showed the first one to my wife, she ran through about three times just choosing "spouse and children" scenarios. Which is kind of 'who cares' but some of them, like Texas can give a final answer with up to six to eight different family relationships if you keep going)

Each one of these takes a good bit of time to research and create and I don't want to keep it up if no one cares. Also, although I wouldn't mind getting site sponsors, I'm not charging anything for using the site and even with sponsors I not going to make anything from them.

 

[FatJackSprat]

Bump for some evening user opinions

 

[FatJackSprat]

One last try for responses before bed.

I think that they give some very valuable information and I know that it has never been done before.

Does everyone think they're bad or is this just the wrong group to ask?

Thanks.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Use a style sheet.

html, body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

 

[FatJackSprat]

Will that stop them from taking up the whole screen?

 

[FatJackSprat]

Should I ditch the home pages? I'm not sure if people are even clicking through to the calculators, which are the whole point of all these sites.

There are many sites out there that give the same information as my home pages, but I don't think it means half as much as when you can enter your own family situation and estate value to see the actual results.

I tried adding that link in the upper left corner with the hope of getting people's attention, but I'm not sure that it will work.

Is it clear from the home screens that there is something more to seen at these sites?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat
Will that stop them from taking up the whole screen?

That will zero out the default margin and padding that is given by your browser to the page, so the white space at the top and left will be gone.