You cannot merely tell your family what should be done with your assets after you pass away. You need to go through the process of...

How to fairly divide an estate between multiple children, can be a difficult question to answer. It can get even more difficult, when the...

More senior citizens are divorcing their spouses than in previous generations. That leads to some estate planning complications. Elderly...

If you are getting married, then you need to create an estate plan or update the one that you already have. There is also something else...

After your get an estate plan, you need to make sure that your spouse knows what to do with it. You can have everything about your estate...

Before you go on a vacation in a foreign country, you should make plans to see an estate planning attorney. If you are about to undertake...

You can create a will by purchasing a form online and filing it out. However, it makes no sense to do so. One of the biggest questions...

People often think of retirement planning as saving for their own financial needs, when they are no longer working. They also think of...

If you start Googling for advice about what to do with your estate, you are likely to find some good sources of information. You are also...

A long time ago, only wealthy people had estate plans prepared and the early estate planning options evolved to reflect their needs. They...

When you first signed up for a retirement account, you might not have thought about all the details that were presented to you. This is...

An executor needs to be chosen carefully, according to the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog in "Selecting an Executor for Your Estate."...

When our children are young and growing up, we try to teach them how they should act later in life. Every parent knows that the lessons...

Everyone who has ever worked in an estate planning attorney's office, has experienced the following scenario at least once. It is likely...

The ability to manage and preserve a large amount of wealth is not something most people are born with. If it were, then there would be...

If you were to conduct a representative poll of middle class Americans about the best way to plan for your estate, it is almost certain...

We do not all like to admit it, but the truth is that we are all often wrong. Many of the things we thought were right, we later learn...

Even people who like to make detailed plans about everything else, are often tempted to put off estate planning for as long as possible....

In a typical American family, the expectation has always been that when the parents pass away, everything they have left will be...

Sometimes differences between generations are greatly overblown. Small differences in the percentage of people in one generation that...