Spring Cleaning: Time to Clean Up Your Estate Planning

Spring Cleaning: Time to Clean Up Your Estate Planning

Spring Cleaning: Time to Clean Up Your Estate Planning Your estate plan, like your home, periodically needs a thorough polishing. Your life circumstances are constantly changing, and an estate plan that perfectly met your needs a couple of years ago may now be...
Your Divorce Decree: The First Step in Estate Planning

Your Divorce Decree: The First Step in Estate Planning

Your Divorce Decree: The First Step in Estate Planning You have recently divorced your spouse and the judge has signed the divorce decree. Now what? Although you may feel as though you have spent enough time and money on lawyers, there is one last attorney you need to...
Avoiding Probate

Avoiding Probate

Avoiding Probate HELP! This Probate Is Taking Forever!!!  After a loved one dies, their money and property must be distributed to the right people, either according to their will or the state’s default distribution scheme (found in its “intestacy” statute). While most...
Common Mistakes with DIY Estate Plans

Common Mistakes with DIY Estate Plans

Common Mistakes with DIY Estate Plans The internet offers all the information and tools we need at our fingertips to create our own estate plan, right? For most people, this is simply not true. Several years ago, Consumer Reports®, an independent nonprofit consumer...