Aug 29, 2023 | Estate Planning, Probate
One of the most common misconceptions we hear from potential clients is that a Last Will and Testament will avoid the Probate process. It will not! Setting up a Will can have several important benefits. For instance, when you die, it will be known who will be in...
Aug 15, 2023 | Estate Planning, Probate
When we discuss the benefits of Revocable Living Trusts with our potential clients, some of them respond that they own everything jointly with their spouse, so there is no urgency. They assume it will only be useful once the first of them goes, and want to wait until...
Apr 13, 2023 | Estate Planning, Probate
My 68-year-old father unexpectedly passed away last year. Despite my efforts to encourage my parents to create Wills and Revocable Living Trusts, they had not done so because, well, they were not wealthy and were not planning on dying yet. My mother, brother, and I...
Nov 4, 2022 | Estate Planning, Probate
However, we can imagine there are many of you who still cannot picture something happening in your own circumstance. In this series, we will showcase a few Probate and Guardianship scenarios we have handled that were the direct result of poor planning by our clients’...