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Estate planning can be a delicate process that involves setting guidelines to help ensure that beneficiaries follow your wishes without any deviations. One tool you can leverage to help ensure that probate administration is a smooth and relatively seamless process for...
When someone chooses you to serve as their executor, they are relying on you to manage their estate and fulfill their final wishes. It is a significant responsibility that’s often fraught with emotional, financial and legal complexities. Even well-intentioned...
You are named as the executor of your parents’ estate. This means that it is your job to read the estate plan, determine what will be required, take an inventory of the assets your parents own and work to distribute those assets to the right beneficiaries. You’re in...
Your estate plan is a personalized set of instructions that tells your loved ones what to do when you pass away. It can also include information about your affairs if you become incapacitated. Because of the nature of this plan, it shouldn’t ever be considered a...
People often decide while they’re working on their estate plan to write (or at least draft) their own obituary. Often, it’s emotionally easier to do while you’re already thinking about what will happen after you die. Some people do it earlier – maybe for a writing...
Increasingly, older people choose to remain in their homes rather than go to a retirement community or move in with their adult children. In-home caregivers are often crucial to helping seniors maintain their independence. Caregivers can help with everything from...
People who are creating an estate plan need to think about the options they have for passing their assets along to their loved ones. This can occur through the pre-death gifts, will designations or trusts, for example. For many, the control and benefits that come with...
If you’re one of the many people who has relocated to Nevada from California to get away from the high cost of living (or from any other state), one of the things you’ll need to do is ensure that your previous estate plan is fully valid in Nevada – and that it...
If you expect “family drama” to break out after your death, you may be looking at ways to safeguard your wishes for your estate. One legal tool at your disposal is called a “no-contest” clause. This is a clause in a will that says that any beneficiary who raises a...
Last wills and testaments are generally dry, legal documents that speak mostly of how your tangible assets are supposed to be divided after your death – but they don’t usually say much about your life, your values or your wishes for your beneficiaries and heirs....