Blog Category - Estate Planning

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Oct

LifeBinder and EstateCare: Keeping Your Estate Plan Organized, Accessible, and Current

Signing your estate planning documents is a major milestone, but it is not the finish line. When a medical emergency, natural disaster, or death occurs, your family will need more than a signed will or trust. They will need to know where your documents are, what accounts you...

Oct

Can an Estate Plan Include a Right of First Refusal on Property?

When a family owns property with significant financial or sentimental value, deciding what happens to it after the owners pass away can be complicated. One family member may wish to preserve the property for future generations, while others may prefer to receive their inheritance...

Oct

Hear From Our Clients: The Strauss Attorneys Experience

Estate planning can feel like a lot to take on. There are decisions about your family, your property, and the people you would trust to help if you could no longer manage things yourself. Even knowing where to begin or which questions to ask can feel overwhelming. At Strauss Atto...

Oct

Aging Without a Built-In Support System

“Who’s going to take care of you when you get older? ” If you do not have children, you may have heard this question from family members or friends. It often comes from a place of genuine concern, but it can also oversimplify the realities of aging. Having adult children does not ...

Oct

Where Does It All Go? Legacy Planning Without Direct Descendants

Estate planning tends to assume a straight line: parents to children. But that assumption does not fit everyone. For people without children, the question becomes, Who should inherit your assets and how do you want your legacy to be carried forward? Not Having a Will May Le...

Oct

Who Speaks for You? Choosing Trusted Decision-Makers Without Adult Children

If you do not have children, whether by choice or circumstance, estate planning can feel like it was not designed with you in mind. Most of the conversations around estate planning and legacy assume that there is a next generation to plan for. But not having children does not obv...

Oct

Planning Before a Family Crisis: Why Good Intentions Aren’t Enough

When a parent experiences a health crisis, families often discover that the plans they thought they had in place do not hold up under pressure. Grief, exhaustion, and complicated family dynamics can cloud verbal understandings, while good intentions alone do not create lega...

Oct

Locked Out: Why Travel Can Expose the Weakest Part of Your Estate Plan

An irony of modern estate planning is that the more secure we make our digital lives, the more vulnerable we are to a planning lockdown when a crisis hits. This digital paradox is not unique to estate planning. We have all experienced technology that is supposed to make life easi...

Oct

Crossing Borders: When Your Estate Plan Does Not Travel with You

If you travel internationally, you may move fluidly among languages, cultures, and customs. However, you may not realize that your estate plan will not automatically follow you across foreign borders. Plans written around US laws may not be recognized or function as intended in o...

Oct

What Happens If Something Goes Wrong While Traveling?

Travel takes us out of our comfort zone, exposes us to new stimuli, and can rekindle a sense of awe as we leave the familiar behind and embrace the unknown. It also challenges us to think and act differently. But by stripping away our daily routines, travel can expose gaps ...

Oct

7 Estate Planning Traps Most People Miss Plus Questions to Audit Your Family’s Future

Think back seven years. Your family, finances, relationships, and even the digital accounts you rely on have likely shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Seven years rarely feels like a long time, until you start listing everything that has changed. Your estate plan is meant t...

Oct

Estate Planning Scams: What Seniors Need to Know

Creating an estate plan is a vital step in protecting your loved ones and ensuring your assets are distributed according to your wishes. Unfortunately, it’s also an area that scammers frequently exploit, targeting individuals who are motivated to act quickly and do the right thin...

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