by Keith Hajovsky | Oct 30, 2024 | Estate Administration, General Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Wills
Can you avoid probate by having a living trust? (please also see Do I Need A Living Trust) Well yes and no. Yes, for all the assets that you actually place into the trust you can avoid probate for those particular assets. For example, you could deed your house to the...
by Keith Hajovsky | Oct 23, 2024 | General Estate Planning, Medical Power of Attorney, Power of Attorney, Wills
Here are some things to think about in regards to your estate planning documents during a crisis. The most recent example of a crisis that affected all of us was in 2020 and 2021 when COVID was in the depths of causing physical harm and financial havoc around the...
by Keith Hajovsky | Oct 9, 2024 | General Estate Planning, Living Will, Wills
What’s the difference between a Will and a Living Will is another question that I often get from people who contact me. Even though they may ‘sound’ very similar, they are actually very different documents that take care of very different issues. A Will is a document...
by Keith Hajovsky | Oct 2, 2024 | Estate Administration, General Estate Planning, Power of Attorney, Wills
“Can my Power of Attorney take care of my assets when I die?” I get this question fairly often. And even more often than that, as I am talking to people about their estate plans I learn that many of them incorrectly assume that their Power of Attorney will still work...
by Keith Hajovsky | Sep 25, 2024 | General Estate Planning, Wills
Don’t wait until it’s too late to make your will. And this also goes for updating your will. Sure, life can get really busy, making it easy to put things off. And I think it’s somewhat human to be in at least partial denial to the fact that one day every single one of...
by Keith Hajovsky | Sep 18, 2024 | General Estate Planning, Wills
“How long does it take to create a will?” is a question I get all the time. Perhaps they are really busy with work and family, and they just don’t have much time to deal with such things, even though they are of course really important. Or perhaps they’re about to go...
