If you have minor children, then a good estate plan is the ultimate security blanket for your children. If a parent passes away, the minor children are not going to magically be able to take care of themselves. That only happens on TV and in movies. It is also not an automatic guarantee that a [...]
If you understand that you should have an estate plan but do not know the first thing about them, then you need to learn about the basics of estate planning. It might seem simple, but the first step to starting your estate plan is to learn about basic estate planning. You need to know what [...]
If a deceased person still has outstanding student loans, the post-death status of those loans depends on what type of loan they are. A person would almost have to be living under a rock not to know someone with student loans and that millions of Americans owe more than a trillion dollars in unpaid student [...]
Prince's half-siblings are in a hurry to have a final decision about who the musician's heirs are. The judge overseeing the matter, however, has different ideas. Who will receive a share of Prince's $300 million estate, the rights to his music and his publicity rights? That is a great question and six people who were [...]
In the absence of a technological breakthrough that scientists are nowhere close to making you are going to pass away. It is inevitable, so you might as well come to terms with it and talk to your family about it. Regardless whether we are willing to accept it - we all know we are going [...]
Usually when people are planning something big that affects important people in their lives, they let those people know about their plans. However, when it comes to their estate plans many keep silent and do not tell the important people that those plans affect. That is a mistake. If you are planning to retire early [...]
Many single people believe that estate planning is only something that married couples with children really need to do. In fact, it is often more important for singles to have estate plans than it is for married people. If a married person passes away without an estate plan, then by law his or her assets [...]
Americans like to put off estate planning for as long as they think they can. That runs the risk of not having a plan if you pass away unexpectedly, so it is better to get an estate plan started without delay. People often want to know what the biggest estate planning secret is. They think [...]
Estate planning is not likely to be a high priority for most recent high school graduates. It should be. Most high school graduates have going to college or getting a job on their minds. They do not often think about possibly passing away and, therefore, creating an estate plan. That is natural as they are [...]
There are some celebrity estates that just when you begin to think that everything might be settled, they head back to court. Whitney Houston's is one of them. The Emmy awards are given for outstanding performances on television so it might seem strange that Whitney Houston, who was not known for her television acting, won [...]