For the estate planning practitioners here, do you: a) maintain safe deposit boxes full of original Wills for your clients? Or b) send clients home with original Will after signing? Or c) file Wills after signing in probate court having jurisdiction?

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Client takes originals. We keep electronic signed copy. A few clients choose to give to court for safe keeping but only a handful. It is a pain to find one if they move to different county and don't tell loved ones where they filed it.

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I give clients the originals and making copies of their signature pages and make/keep the electronic copy

Same here.

I previously assisted another attorney with winding down his practice and he had so many original wills still. It was a mess trying to determine if the clients were still alive or not and where they were to try to get those back to them.

OP: check your State’s rules on what is required of an attorney who has original wills still in possession at the time of winding down the business.

My State has a specific process to follow.

We send them the original. Same experience with AA1. We can't afford to take full responsibility for the original ones.

Client keeps originals. I keep a scanned copy.

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