A personal representative, otherwise known as an executor, is the person responsible for handling your estate when you die. Handling an estate includes a variety of responsibilities, such as gathering and protecting the assets of the deceased and filing paperwork with the court. While no...
An estate planning attorney usually isn't the kind of lawyer you think about contacting when getting a divorce. With other legal matters to settle, contacting your estate planner and updating your documents is the last thing on your mind. Especially as a divorce attorney should...
An Alabama court unsealed author Harper Lee's last will and testament in February, according to this New York Times article. Lee's will was previously private thanks to her long-time lawyer, Tonja B. Carter. Carter, the executor of Lee's estate, went to court in 2016 to...
Life and its challenges are unpredictable, which is why it's a good idea to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Creating estate planning documents is a great way to prepare for life's worst-case scenarios. When it comes to planning for something as...
A total of sixty-nine percent of people living in the U.S. have at least one social media account, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. This begs the question: What happens to a person's social media accounts when they die? It turns out,...
Pew Research Center recently published a study on the amount of Americans using social media. The study found a whopping sixty-nine percent of people in the U.S. have at least one type of social media account. Even older adults are in on the...
Though it may not be obvious, love and estate planning go hand-in-hand. After all, protecting and providing for loved ones is what estate planning documents are for. Or, what they're usually for. When it comes to married couples and estate planning, history has proven all...
From family heirlooms to property to wealth, people often have a variety of items to pass on to heirs. However, knowing what you have to pass down is usually easier to figure out than deciding who gets what. Divvying up your estate doesn't have to...
Similar to estate planning, legacy planning involves preparing for the future. However, unlike estate planning, which involves creating documents for the distribution of wealth and protection against the unforeseen, legacy planning is often only used to distribute assets. While legacy planning is ultimately about passing...
Kick the bucket, bite the big one, push up daisies. People use many idioms to soften the finality of death. Though death is inevitable and scary, you can alleviate some of the stress by estate planning since estate planning enables you to create a plan...