Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts can help you with most of these issues and documents or refer you to other appropriate AIDS service providers. VLA also sells a wide variety of low-cost publications providing answers to a wide range of legal issues facing artists in all creative disciplines.

Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City publishes an excellent guide to general legal issues for People With AIDS. You should order their publication, Legal Issues About AIDS, for information on the full range of legal questions you may have, whether or not you are an artist.

Throughout this section, you have been provided with general areas of concern you should address when making a will and planning your estate. These general guidelines should enable you to be a full partner in that process. Work with a lawyer and be aware that, as an artist, you hold special property. Never be scared off by the term estat.every artist has an important estate.