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"You might be able to arrange a free initial meeting at which the lawyer will tell you what to think about or provide a questionnaire that helps you pull things together", says Virginia McArthur, a retired estate-planning lawyer in Washington, D.C., and author of Let's Talk About Estate Planning. The study cites COVID-19 as a major factor in this burst of estate-planning interest, which wasn't limited to young adults. Here's a statistic that will raise a few eyebrows: The number of adults younger than 35 who have a will increased by nearly 70% over the past year, reports Caring.com in its 2021 Wills and Estate Planning Study. [Extracted from the article]