Ensure their estate planning documents are up - to - date, and clarify
which estate planning documents (wills, trusts, power of attorneys, etc.) would be beneficial for the client to have
Section Five: Other Retirement Considerations will help you determine what to do with your mortgage and also
which estate planning documents you need to obtain.
Not exact matches
Unlike Wills,
which most people think as the be-all and end - all of
Estate Planning, Living Trusts help keep your private
documents private.
Alexis Neely: The big mistakes that most
estate planning lawyers are making is that they are doing
estate planning the way that we were taught in law school,
which is forms and
documents.
A basic
estate plan is an
estate plan that includes legal
documents which, together with proper nonprobate asset beneficiary designations, are likely to address the
estate planning needs of most people, but
which avoid the complexities of drafting and enforcing a trust.
Both sides cited cases
which stand for the same basic proposition: A beneficiary has a proprietary interest in and is entitled to production of
documents relating to advice sought and obtained by a trustee in connection with the administration or management of, for instance, a pension
plan, or an
estate (see Froese v. Montreal Trust Co. of Canada [1993] B.C.J. No. 1529 (S.C.), aff'd [1993] B.C.J. No. 1847 (C.A.); Re Ballard Estate [1994] O.J. No. 2281 (Gen.
estate (see Froese v. Montreal Trust Co. of Canada [1993] B.C.J. No. 1529 (S.C.), aff'd [1993] B.C.J. No. 1847 (C.A.); Re Ballard
Estate [1994] O.J. No. 2281 (Gen.
Estate [1994] O.J. No. 2281 (Gen. Div.)
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An
estate plan, on the other hand, can consist of multiple
documents,
which together manage distribution of your
estate.
Generally, in
estate planning, this is a
document which guarantees payment in the event that a person responsible for money or property distribution does not act in accordance with the will or trust, the law, or his or her fiduciary duties.
This training tool,
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