The purpose of estate planning is to arrange your asset titles, contracts, and documents in advance so that all the property controlled by you will pass in the fashion you desire. Before you decide that the whole thing is too complicated and opt to 'do nothing' or to 'do it yourself' please read Michael T. Palermo's concise guide, the best we have found on the internet, as to what everyone should know about the laws of wills and trusts before their own family estate plan is designed. This is a good place to click off. The discussion here about Succession will introduce you to the several methods by which property can pass at death. Family circumstances change.
Tax laws change, too.
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