Helping You Overcome Life’s Most Difficult Legal Challenges
You’re happily married, but children have never been on the radar for you. As a result, you’ve put estate planning on the backburner. You assume that everything will automatically go to your spouse if you predecease them. Is this really the case? Is estate planning...
While doing your estate planning, you hear plenty of stories about heirs who start will contests and end up in legal disputes with their siblings. You don't want that to happen to your family, so you consider adding a no-contest clause to the estate plan. Essentially,...
When you're making an estate plan, you look at all of the assets that you have and you divide them between your heirs however you choose. You can put money in a trust, you can leave the money directly to an heir or you can use some combination to set up a plan that...
When you die, someone will need to take charge of handling your estate, passing it through probate if needed, and distributing assets as per your wishes. While death might seem a long way off, it is important to name someone now in case you die unexpectedly. If you...
The wonderful thing about estate planning in the 21st century is having so many options at your disposal. The legal documents you add to your estate plan can cover almost any issue that concerns you. A living will, for example, helps you address catastrophic health...
Most people's estate plans focus almost entirely on who they want to leave their property to when they die. Wills allocate property, while trusts can help people avoid estate taxes or the loss of property to creditors. That is far from all that an estate plan can do....
You’re watching a movie one night with your family, after having considered writing a will. Ironically, the movie starts with a family gathering at their lawyer’s office for a will reading after a loved one has passed away. You start to wonder if this is what it is...
There are important life events in the life of every estate planner that should cause them to reexamine their estate plan and update it if needed. Estate planners should be familiar with what types of circumstances should prompt them to ensure their estate plan is...
Many people probably put off estate planning because they find the vast array of potential options too daunting. They don’t know where to start, so they don’t start at all. However, just because there may be a wide range of estate planning options for any given person...
While being assigned executor of a will is an honor, it is also an obligation and big responsibility. By definition, an executor (also called a “personal representative”) is an individual or bank or trust company that settles the estate of a testator according to the...
