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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9105416" data-attributes="member: 8461">This is a salient point, and being reminded of that inspired me to go through the process, which as it turned out was incredibly easy and only required a nominal fee. The result being that I now have copies of the two wills that Gary wrote (one from March 28th, 1990, and the other from July 11th, 2006; both were filed as of May 5th, 2020, as outlined in the court docket for this case).While the court clerk that I spoke to confirmed that both wills are in the public record, I'm not sure if that means that I'm allowed to repost them online. That said, I'm fairly confident that I'm allowed to speak with regard to their contents, so I'll add that the 1990 will is much more generous to Gail than the 2006 will is (though she's still favored in that one as well).Most notably, the 2006 will specifically cites that – notwithstanding several items Gary set aside for his children – Gail gets the rest of his estate, "save for" Gary's intellectual property, "as well as interest" in his name and any pen names or anagrams of his name (he specifically calls out "Yrag" and "Zagyg/Zagig" as examples of this), which Gary bequeaths to Gail for "her use and enjoyment" during her lifetime, after which his IP is to be evenly divided among his six children.All of this is broadly in line with what was <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/e-gary-gygax-sr-may-have-had-another-more-recent-will.672337/post-7998828" target="_blank">reported on</a> by Kotaku several years ago, though I'll say that this will certainly looks like it's signed correctly to me (the only potential irregularity I can see is that, where he should have written the month and day, Gary only wrote the day, so it says he signed it on the "11th" of 2006; the witness signatures, which look to be Gail Gygax and Alex Gygax (Gail's son with Gary), both have the listed date as being 7/11/2006).</blockquote>

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