A friend of mine who volunteers for hospice wondered out loud a couple of weeks ago: “Why is it that more people die around…
A friend of mine died this week. She wasn’t a close friend, but we had been members of the same group for many years, and saw each…
While standing in line at the grocery store a few days ago, the cover of People magazine caught my eye. It was a photograph of Brittany Maynard,…
I explained last week that an heir is a person who will inherit your property by virtue of a state’s intestacy laws if you die without…
The words “Beneficiary” and “Heir” are often used interchangeably, but each word has a very specific legal definition. A beneficiary is someone who benefits from the transfer…
Most of my clients are healthy when they contact me. Estate planning is something in which they are engaging as a precautionary measure rather…
Wendy S. Goffe wrote a great guest article on Forbes.com last week that offered tips to avoid problems that can result from incomplete or inaccurate IRA beneficiary…
I’ve received several emails the past few weeks asking whether it is possible for a beneficiary of an estate to also serve as executor. Naming someone as…