As you undoubtedly know, your estate plan has the power to protect your hard-earned assets as well as help those assets grow over the course of your lifetime. If you already have an estate plan, you are ahead of over half the population in the United States. Taking the time to create that plan, however, […]
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3 Major Motivations for Estate Planning
By Heather Agun, Edited by Becky Pearsall *Created under the direct legal supervision of Stephen Waltar. See Disclaimer Photos by Heather Agun Most plans in life are made with the intention of seeing them through. Career plans, vacation plans, home renovation plans… we carefully lay these out with the expectation of accomplishment. Once we […]
Tips for avoiding a will contest
Probably one of the most easily avoided types of lawsuit is the will contest. While it may be an attempt to get more assets than other family members, many times it is as much about the principle of equal treatment. Unless there is some type of undue influence that can be proven, chances are that […]
Divorce can have significant effect on estate planning
With the high divorce rate in this country, many legal issues can arise before, during and after a divorce is final, or even before it is filed. One area that can be strongly impacted by divorce is estate planning. Once the legal bonds between spouses are dissolved, many things that seemed automatic about who gets […]
Where there’s a will, you can read it
The recent death of James Gandolfini, best known as mobster Tony Soprano on the HBO series, is a reminder that it is never to soon to create an estate plan even if just a will. At the relatively young age of 51, the actor’s sudden death has left a reportedly $70 million estate with more […]
