Ideally, you should get an estate plan long before you become terminally ill. However, not everyone really thinks about the prospect of...

Some of the most important legal documents a rancher can have are the documents that make up the rancher’s estate plan. They are the...

Estate plans come in all shapes and sizes. Some are extraordinarily complex and contain thousands of pages of legal documents. Other...

In the eyes of the law, a farm is just a type of business. Like any other business, it can be passed to other people when the current...

The two main ways that people pass their assets to their heirs are through a will and through a trust. They both serve the same basic...

You can find a lot of advice on the Internet that will tell you that estate planning really is not that complicated. In a sense, that...

The word “estate” conjures up certain ideas in the popular imagination. The term has connotations of mansions with well-manicured lawns....

In the next few years an extraordinary amount of wealth is expected to be transferred to the Baby Boomer generation by their parents. It...

A common misconception is that if you are a single adult with no children, you will not need an estate plan. Recently, the NWI Times...

When same-sex marriage was not legal in the U.S., it was vital that LGBT couples get estate plans to preserve their interests as the law...

At first glance it might seem like an odd question, but it is one that gets asked with some frequency: What is the best time of year to...

After people get estate plans they often want to know whether they should tell other people about the contents of the plan. Specifically,...

It is not a big revelation that people prefer not to think about the end of their own lives and assume they will live for a long time....

In many families just because a child is an adult and is going to college does not mean the child is independent. The parents still pay...

If you have pets, it is always a good idea to make plans for who will take care of them in case something happens to you. However, that...

It might seem simple, but the first step to starting your estate plan is to learn about basic estate planning. You need to know what the...

If a parent passes away, the minor children are not going to magically be able to take care of themselves. That only happens on TV and in...

Regardless whether we are willing to accept it - we all know we are going to pass away. We might not want to believe it, but every sane...

If you are planning to retire early or to sell off major assets, then you should let your spouse know about those plans. You should...

If a married person passes away without an estate plan, then by law his or her assets will go to the surviving spouse, which is what most...