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If you die without an estate plan, then it is important for you to understand that there may be costs that your family or friends will have to pay that could have been avoided. If you don’t have an estate plan, there will be monetary and psychological costs. To start...
Your estate plan determines your legacy after you die. Your will provides instructions regarding how your personal representative distributes your property. It can also name a guardian for your children if they are still young or have special needs. In large part,...
Face it — 2020 was a rough year, and 2021 is shaping up to be a tough contender, as well. If you are a parent, you could find that the stresses of everyday life have gotten your marriage in a bit of a crisis state. What you might need is a short trip out of the...
When you are working on an estate plan, one of the things that you have to think about is that you could lose your right to make changes to this plan if you ever lose your mental capacity. Your mental capacity is what determines if you have the right to make decisions...
In a recent post, we discussed the common misconception that estate planning shouldn’t happen until later in life. Many people assume that they should just wait until they are nearing retirement (or later) to draft a will and attend to other estate planning tasks....
When you are in your 20s and 30s, you may be too busy living to think about retiring or dying. Therefore, an estate plan may not be high on your list of priorities. You may even see it as something that “old” people do. However, this is not correct. It is never too...