What Happens if You Die Without a Will or Trust?
We assume that we don’t need to create an estate plan today. You can put it off until tomorrow, right? Drafting that will or creating that trust sounds daunting. When “tomorrow” comes, you can put it off again. Eventually everything falls into a holding pattern. It’s the easiest thing in the world not to do […]
What to do When Will Contests Terrorize You
Estate Planning practitioners field questions regarding disinheriting beneficiaries regularly. The second question often relates to what happens when that beneficiary or any other tries to have the estate plan or portions thereof overturned. An “in terrorem” or “no contest” clause usually acts as a deterrent to such beneficiaries by completing divesting them of their inheritance should they choose to initiate a lawsuit