Getting Through Your Divorce and on With Your Life

Creating And Executing Your Estate Plan

29 June 2020

Celina Henry

An estate plan can be an essential document if you are to limit the disruptions and chaos that can arise from your passing. While estate plans can be fairly common legal instruments, they are not an especially well-known topic for many people.

Collect The Information Your Estate Planning Attorney May Need

Working with an estate planning attorney can be the best option for ensuring that the final estate plan will be comprehensive and clear. This can reduce conflicts that arise over the confusion that results from a poorly worded or incomplete estate plan. Additionally, these professionals will be able to avoid the risk of filing mistakes or other errors with the estate plan's legal documents. Luckily, estate planning attorneys can be very affordable given the importance of ensuring that your estate plan is properly prepared before your passing.

Update The Plan After You Have Major Life Changes Or Acquire New Investments

Any major life changes can have sizable impacts on your estate plan, and this will lead to them needing to be updated. Common examples of these updates can be instances of marriage, acquiring, or selling a business and any other action that can have a sizable financial impact. In order to reduce the risks of failing to update the estate after these changes, many individuals will choose to review their estate plan at the same time each year. Fortunately, the process of reviewing and updating an estate plan will not be as time-consuming as originally creating it.

Discuss The Estate Plan With Survivors

It can be advisable for your survivors to understand what is included in the estate plan. By giving these individuals notice as to what they can expect from the estate plan, you can allow them to better prepare for your passing, and this can reduce the risk of conflicts as everyone will know ahead of time as to what they should expect from the estate. These conversations may not be pleasant, but they can be among vital for ensuring that there is a smooth transition following your passing and the distribution of your assets.

An estate plan can reduce the stress that your survivors will experience when you pass away. However, you may not be prepared to create one of these plans. Understanding the need to gather information before meeting with your attorney, the importance of updating the estate plan, and ensuring the survivors are informed ahead of time of the contents of the plan will avoid common estate planning problems individuals encounter.

Contact an estate planning attorney to learn more.

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Going through a divorce? I know how you might feel – alone, stressed out, and probably even a little sad due to the loss of the life you have always known. Whether you have children or not, you might even feel a little guilty about the break down of your relationship. But I'm here to tell you that a divorce is not the end of the world. In fact, once you get used to the idea and start to move on with your life, you may find just as much, if not more, happiness than you ever had while you were married! Getting through the proceedings of your divorce in a dignified manner is the first step, and hopefully this website will give you the insight, support, and motivation you need to get through the process as painlessly as possible.