Oct 14, 2025 | Insights
Estate planning often feels complex, leading many people to rely on assumptions that can have devastating consequences for their loved ones and their legacy. From who can make decisions for you to whether you need an estate plan, common myths can stand between you and...
Oct 7, 2025 | Insights
Estate planning often feels complex, leading many people to rely on assumptions that can have devastating consequences for their loved ones and their legacy. From who can make decisions for you to whether you need an estate plan, common myths can stand between you and...
Sep 30, 2025 | Insights
Most people think of probate (the process of collecting, managing, and distributing a deceased person’s money and property) as a private process. However, because probate involves the court system, most filings become a matter of public record. That means your nosy...
Sep 23, 2025 | Insights
Many estate plans today include trusts that become irrevocable upon the trustmaker’s death and continue for the benefit of a surviving spouse, children, or other loved ones. Some trusts are designed to span multiple generations. For example, a trust may leave an...
Sep 16, 2025 | Insights
A revocable living trust can serve as a valuable estate planning tool to help ensure that your finances remain well managed if you become incapacitated (unable to manage your affairs while you are alive) and to provide future financial security for your loved ones...
Sep 9, 2025 | Insights
The bad news: When a person dies owning property in their sole name without a beneficiary, their loved ones will have to go through a court-supervised process called probate to transfer the property out of the deceased person’s name and into the name of intended...
