Rashmi's Space

I recently met a few friends for lunch. Part of the group, were working moms, stay-at-home moms and a working from home moms (like yours truly).  After the initial cat-up about kids and family, the conversation naturally veered towards work-life-balance. One of my friends, who is a stay-at-home mom mentioned that she was looking for a part-time job. She felt a little a little depressed, she said, and admitted that she was stuck in some kind of an identity crisis. A mother and a homemaker by choice, she couldn't help the feeling that she was losing out on her identity as an individual. We all knew her to be a very intelligent and successful person in her own right, although, she sometimes tends to think more with her heart…so, this friend of mine, felt she was losing herself somewhere between being a mother and a wife and a dutiful daughter-in-law.  Listening to her, another of my friends, who works full-time, said it was much better to be at home full time, as she s...

Let's choose executors and talk of wills: And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? William Shakespeare ,  Richard II  (c. 1595), Act III, scene 2, line 148.  A few days back in my blog, I wrote a post about the importance of making a will; and making one when time is still on your side. Many of my friends who read the blog, had a lot of questions...some of them quite specific...some wanted to know if it is required to seek legal counsel when making a will, while some wanted to know what exactly one can include in one's will? Some wanted to know if a soft copy of a will is admissible, while some had questions as to where the will needed to be for safe keeping. The questions made it pretty clear that although, as far as lawyers are concerned, making a will is mere technicality, albeit a very important one; for the general public who have limited or often wrong knowledge of law, it is very important to have a few more clarifi...