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Wills For Heroes Event Held In Asheville
Article Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar
Association held its first Wills for Heroes event of the
2009-10 association year in Asheville on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the
Pisgah Legal Services building.
Volunteer attorney Stephanie Vellios |
Forty-eight first responders and their spouses were served by a
volunteer workforce of 20 which included 13 attorneys.
"The feedback was all positive," said Susan Finch who serves as
co-chair of the YLD Wills for Heroes Committee with Jake Epstein.
"We had a lot of attorneys who said they want to volunteer for
another Wills for Heroes event, and quite a few first responders
and attorneys who asked if we would do another event in
Asheville."
Most of the first responders who attended the Oct. 17 event were
members of the Asheville Fire Department or the Asheville Police
Department.
Wills for Heroes provides free essential estate planning documents
including wills and powers of attorney to first responders
including policemen, firefighters, and emergency medical
technicians (EMTs) and their spouses.
The NCBA Young Lawyers Division adopted Wills for Heroes as a
public service project in 2007 and has previously held programs in
Charlotte, Salisbury, Greensboro, Statesville, Raleigh, Cary,
Winston-Salem and Wilmington. Volunteer attorneys in North Carolina
have prepared thousands of estate planning documents for first
responders and their spouses at no charge.
The Wills for Heroes Foundation was established by attorneys
Anthony Hayes of South Carolina and Jeff Jacobson of Arizona after
the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The Foundation works to
assist first responders across the country in a number of ways,
including providing free estate planning documents and other
financial assistance programs.
More information on the Wills for Heroes program can be found at
www.willsforheroes.org.