A will gives you a written, legal document with clear, concise directions to declare how you want your estate distributed after your death. In addition to providing peace of mind for your family, the will empowers you with making several critical decisions including: Choose the person you want to carry out your final wishes. [...]
Choosing the right attorney for your estate. Now that you have committed to planning your estate, your next step involves doing your homework to find the right estate planning attorney to assist you in achieving your goals. This work involves more than posing a question on Facebook, performing a Google search, or asking the [...]
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln Perhaps you just attended a funeral, or were diagnosed with a serious medical condition, or having an ‘adulting moment’, and you are thinking about your own mortality and considering your next steps. Yet, fear of taking the next step- do I [...]
Many times I meet prospective clients who do not have an estate plan in place and are ready to use an online service to prepare wills, advanced directives, and even trusts. Every time I implore them to use a licensed, experienced, estate planning attorney to draft these crucial documents so that their wishes, concerning end [...]
In Case of Emergency- How to Plan Talking about emergencies, sudden illnesses and death won't kill you but most people avoid the difficulty of initiating this conversation with loved ones. In our death- denying society, wouldn't you like to avoid it all together? On the contrary, acknowledging these realities can prepare and protect your family [...]
Thursdays are for Tips and Trix! Today's Tip: A major health diagnosis serves as a good trigger to strategize an estate plan to ensure the right community of support around you as you face a major health diagnosis and to review estate planning documents in order to pass along assets in the event of [...]
“You need a good estate planning attorney,” is a common phrase I tell clients as we review how Executrixie can assist them through the future disposition of an estate. I tell them an estate planning attorney will offer legal advice and help draft various written legal documents including power of attorney, living trust, and [...]
