How You Can Help Your Loved Ones by Planning Your Funeral Arrangements
When an individual passes away without a funeral plan, responsibility for arranging the funeral often falls on the deceased’s close family members, such as surviving spouses and children. Planning your [...]
Estate Planning After Divorce
So, you’re officially divorced. In starting this new chapter of life, you should update your estate planning documents as soon as possible. You may no longer be legally married, but [...]
How Long Should I Hold on to Important Documents?
It is hard to know what documents to trash and when. Before you know it, your spare room, office, basement, or garage is overflowing with boxes of papers that all [...]
Don’t Yet Want Your Heirs to Know About Your Assets? Use a Quiet Trust in Your Estate Plan
Trusts are great tools for leaving assets to your heirs while maintaining control over their access to those assets. In many cases, you would tell your beneficiaries that you have [...]
What Is the Difference Between a Springing and Non-Springing Power of Attorney?
A power of attorney is a document that grants various powers and responsibilities to a trusted third party or “agent” who can act on your behalf. This document usually only [...]
Who Are Parties to an Estate?
When people pass away, their assets go through probate — a legal process that distributes the person’s assets after death. The parties to an estate are the people involved in [...]
No Will? You’re Putting Your Kids at Risk
Many people delay the conversation or thoughts of having to prepare a will. Confronting the possibility of one’s death is not easy. However, as the recent death of Anne Heche [...]
