First, because these cheap, online options are NOT as “easy to use” as claimed, and secondly…they actually cost you an arm and a leg because, more than likely you (or your loved ones) will need to hire a real lawyer to clean up the mess later!

Using those programs can end up leaving thousands (or much more) of YOUR assets in the coffers of Uncle Sam or the County Court system…even if you follow all of their instructions to a tee. Not to mention all the errors we find by people who think they did everything just right, but still got stuck in unfortunate traps for the unwary that you just wouldn’t know about.

Murray was hired as the first black deputy attorney general in California and eventually published a book titled, States’ Laws on Race and Color, which was later described as the “bible for the civil rights movement.”

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Murray to the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women where she continued to argue against sex discrimination and racial discrimination. She also served as Vice President of Benedict College, and later, a professor at Brandeis University where she taught law, African-American studies, and women’s studies.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was named to the U.S Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, making her the second female justice of the high court. Prior to her appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg served as a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for 13 years. She is known for being a strong advocate for gender equality, the rights of workers, and the separation of church and state. Her most notable decisions as a judge include the landmark case United States v. Virginia, ruling that the state-supported military couldn’t refuse women, and Bush v. Gore, which played a major role in the 2000 presidential election.

After earning her law degree from Stanford in 1952 and serving two terms in the Arizona state senate, Sandra Day O’Connor worked her way through the legal system as an attorney and ultimately a judge. Two years after winning the election to the Arizona Court of Appeals, President Reagan appointed her to the United States Supreme Court in 1981, making her the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court in its 191-year history. She served for twenty-four years, during which she established herself as one of the most influential voices on the Court until her retirement in 2006.