QUESTION
Are you able to give someone custody of your children in a last will and testament if the children's father is still living? example: my daughter is
Asked on Dec 05th, 2014 on Wills and Probate - Ohio
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Are you able to give someone custody of your children in a last will and testament if the children's father is still living? example: my daughter is going in for an operation and she has heart problems. Can she put in a will that if something should happen to her, that I, her mother, the children's grandmother would get custody of the children. Or would they automatically go to the fathers?
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A last will and testament can *nominate* (that is, state the testator's preference as to) a guardian, but only a court can actually appoint a guardian.
Answered on Dec 31st, 2014 at 7:14 AM