A very important step in creating your estate plan is hiring the estate planning attorney who will work with you. Estate planning is much more complex than simply drawing-up a Will, so you want to be sure you have the help of an attorney experienced in managing more...
It is easy to put off creating a will and other estate planning tools such as health care directives, powers of attorney and trusts. Also, it is easy to select an online provider to create the documents – but neither of these is your best option. There are five...
A durable power of attorney for finances enables someone you have designated to manage your finances when you are no longer able to make financial decisions. A family estate planning attorney will tell you that this document is very important to your family, whether...
Everyone has the right to choose his or her own health care interventions and treatments. Yet sometimes an individual is comatose or has dementia or some other debilitation and cannot make health care choices. In this case, a health care directive will express to...
To explain it simply, a revocable trust (also called a living trust) may be changed after it is created. An irrevocable trust is quite difficult to change. An individual may choose to form an irrevocable trust to receive certain tax-shelter benefits not provided by a...