Well, it looks like there are more problems with using LegalZoom, according to Texas attorney Rania Combs. If you remember she had a great post about LegalZoom on her blog entitled The Problem with LegalZoom(And Other Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning Solutions). Well, apparently, LegalZoom was also paying attention. They corrected a few of the problems as it relates to Texas law in their documents.
In her new post entitled The Problem With LegalZoom (Part 2)- Inaccuracies Corrected But Problem Remains, she points on the biggest inherent problem with using LegalZoom, or any other Do-it-yourself approach to estate planning. Look at the disclaimer. Attorney Combs analyzes the LegalZoom disclaimer in great detail.
Some of the troubling language includes “the legal information on LegalZoom’s website is not guaranteed to be correct or up-to-date” and “LegalZoom does not review your answers for legal sufficiency..”. Yikes!
Attorney Combs ends her post with the conclusion that LegalZoom and all of the do-it-yourself options are a risky approach to completing your estate plan. As a Michigan estate planning attorney, I concur.
