Is a grandchild's social security number needed for a will?

If grandparents are making out a will, do they need their grandchild's social security number to include them in the will?

That doesn't sound right to me...when my grandmother passed away, I don't think she had my number or the mental facilities to obtain it (unless my dad gave it to her, which I doubt).

You might consider checking in with a laywer who specializes in wills such to get some solid advice if it's an urgent or important matter - we can't really give out legal advice here, since most of us aren't lawyers if we did give what was construed as legal advice, we'd get in trouble with actual laywers

Hope this helps.

Nope, you can leave things to children you barely even know. If someone is asking for a child's social security number, I would be very wary of them.