http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/22/facing-my-financial-fears-estate-planning/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/22/facing-my-financial-fears-estate-planning/#comment-91792 Ann Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:32:59 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/22/facing-my-financial-fears-estate-planning/#comment-91792 Hey Trent,
Just checking…have you and your wife followed through on estate planning? We have been burdened with completing ours, too. It’s not that fear is keeping us from finishing the project and signing off on it, it’s the fact that we don’t really have many viable options for guardians for our children should something happen to my husband and I. We have lived through his mother’s recent death and her estate was not completed and all of her assets were essentially given to my husband’s stepfather. Her will dated to 1978 and was never updated to reflect her current wishes. A similar incident happened with my husband’s grandmother’s outdated estate planning. Both situations have been exhausting, to say the least, not to mention broken and irreversibly damaged family relationships. Lesson learned: we meet with our attorney to sign on the dotted line in two weeks.

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