Diana is a freelance writer that has written extensively in the areas of finance, financial planning and estate planning.
24 October 2025Families often ask if they can complete probate without a lawyer. The honest answer is yes—for many straightforward estates. Courts are used to “pro...
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28 August 2025Your financial life lives in the cloud as much as in a filing cabinet. Email is the inbox of record. Photos sit in an...
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28 August 2025Moving real estate into a revocable living trust is the single most valuable step in funding because it unlocks probate avoidance and gives your...
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28 May 2025Families often ask whether they should prepay funeral expenses. The answer depends on what you’re buying and why. Done thoughtfully, pre‑need planning shores up...
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2 March 2025Estate planning for unmarried couples is about filling the legal gaps that marriage would otherwise cover by default. Without documents, the law turns first...
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2 September 2024When parents ask how to choose a guardian, what they really want is confidence—confidence that the right person will raise their children, that bills...
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12 March 2024Creating a revocable living trust is only half the job. The other half—funding the trust—is what actually delivers probate avoidance, privacy, and smooth successor...
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28 June 2023In a second marriage, good intentions are not a plan. If you leave everything outright to a spouse, your children from a prior relationship...
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10 October 2020Many people believe it’s not necessary to make a will while they’re young, before they have children, or if they’re not married. There might...
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12 June 2020If you don’t make a living will, state law will intervene to determine how decisions regarding your end of life medical treatment are made....
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9 June 2020There are several distinct advantages to funeral planning, and indeed planning your own funeral. We will introduce some of these benefits to you below....
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