Trusts & Wills
You may just need a Simple Will and other basic planning.  

Or you may need something more involved, including a Revocable Living Trust
with Pourover Wills, Healthcare Directives, Durable Powers of Attorney, and
Transfer Letters and Documents.  

Here are the reasons for good estate planning:

  1. To provide for guardianship for your children;
  2. To provide for healthcare decisions;
  3. To avoid probate;
  4. To coordinate with asset protection planning;
  5. To coordinate personal planning with good business planning;
  6. To coordinate insurance and investment planning;
  7. To avoid large attorney's fees upon death;
  8. To keep your estate and your affairs confidential;
  9. To accomplish good tax planning; and
  10. To reduce or eliminate delays in asset distribution to heirs.

There are many types of trusts, revocable and irrevocable, educational,
charitable, each having its own purpose.  

Follow this tour of the estate planning process beginning with the first step at
death, probate.  
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