Why Estate Planning Is Vital

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Many people spend more time planning other aspects of their life than they do with estate planning. While it may not be fun to think of who will inherit your assets when you’re gone, failure to do so means that your hard-earned property may not be divided in the way you like. Why should you engage in estate planning? There are many great benefits to planning your estate before your death. Some of these benefits include: The main benefit is that you get to choose Read More +

When Should I Review My Existing Will?

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Q: When should I review my existing will? A: If there are no changes to be made, every 10 years your will and your estate planning documents should be reviewed. However, of course, if there are changes over the course of that 10 year period of time, if beneficiaries pass away or family becomes estranged then the changes should be made as needed. But if there are not pressing changes to be made, then every 10 years or so you should sit down and consult Read More +

How Can An Estate Plan Make Things Easier On My Family After I Die?

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There are very little or very few choices that have to be made once you have an estate plan. The only thing your family would really need to do once somebody passes is hire an attorney for a probate or hire an attorney to settle up the trust matters. You’ve already presupposed what you want to do with everything prior to your passing so it takes a lot of the burden off your family when you’ve already made those decisions. Picture Credit: Pixabay

Estate Planning for Millennials

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Even as a lawyer who practices in Estate Planning I didn’t have a Will until I was about 30 years old. I figured since I only had debt if my family wanted to fight over that, they were welcome to it. So this blog post is directed at the so-called “Millennials” – who are largely defined as folks from about 34 years of age (year of birth, 1982) down to about 16 year old. Largely speaking, it’s people from their 20s to mid-30s. Maybe you Read More +

Thank You………

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I rarely get too personal in my law firm website blog postings. It’s not in my nature. I’ll write about cases I’ve had, about changes in the law, about things around the office, about funny things in general. But writing about me as a person first and a lawyer next, is an unnatural and uncomfortable exercise. However, on this two year anniversary it is time to reflect and acknowledge that I’m incredibly, unbelievably grateful the way things have developed over the last 24 months. Two Read More +

No, Not Every State Allows a “No-Contest” Clause in a Will – Florida Doesn’t….

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Recently, I was listening to a national cable show and their estatexpert for the day was an estate planner. Prattling on about how you don’t really need a lawyer to do your own estate planning, he advised going to a website and downloading a Will form, and added, don’t forget to put a “No-Contest” clause in your Will. “That way, if Junior ever contests his share from your Will, he won’t get a penny!” He went on to say, “All states allow a No-Contest Clause Read More +