For the following examples, we are going to use this "Last Will and Testament" as the document which we will disassemble.

 

   For the initial examples, we are going to break out the second substantive paragraph of  above Last Will and Testament (starting with "A. I am married . . .").

   The first thing we may wish to do is to Pathagorize the text so that it reads:

  A.   I am married and have {!ch!one child/OR[Number of Children] children}. My [spouse:husband/wife]'s name is [Name of Spouse], and my {!ch!child's name is/ORchildren's names are} [Name(s) of children].

You can copy and paste the above text into a document and test the text as we proceed.
(Note that several different 'Pathagorizing' techniques are in use.
They are explained in the text box at the foot of this page.)

   We will call this clause 'Family Structure'.

   We are going to be using the same folder that we have always been using to store Will clauses, which we are, for this example, going to call C:\Office Forms\Estate Planning\Will Clauses. (Some like to create a brand new folder to segregate 'Pathagorized' clauses from the older versions of the text. This is perfectly okay, but just know that it is not required.)

   Let's further assume that the above path has previously been associated with a book in the Document Assembly system called "Will Clauses". Let's further assume that a DropDown List has been created and it contains the names of all the clauses in the same folder.