What If No One Wants My Stuff? Trust Attorneys Explain How Your Personal Property Is Distributed After Your Death A critical question to ask yourself when creating an estate plan is who will get your stuff when you pass on? While most people think about who they would like to receive the major items—homes, retirement [...]
How to Choose a Trustee Arizona Trust Attorneys List Things to Consider When Choosing Your Agent When you establish a trust, you name someone to be the trustee. A trustee does what you do right now with your financial affairs—collect income, pay bills and taxes, save and invest for the future, buy and sell property, [...]
Five Mistakes Successor Trustees Make and How to Prevent Them Arizona Trust Attorneys Give Advice to Prevent Successor Trustees Mistakes When establishing a trust, you must give serious thought to who you choose as your successor trustee—the person who will manage, invest, and hand out the trust’s accounts and property once you are no longer [...]
Seven Ways to Avoid Family Fights over Your Property Ask a group of friends if they have experienced a family fight over a property after a loved one has died, and you will be in for a lively and eye-opening conversation. Far too many families end up fighting, or at least experiencing tension, over a [...]
How to Help Your Loved Ones (and Assets) Avoid Probate Today, many people are using a revocable living trust instead of a will or joint ownership as the foundation of their Estate Plan. When properly prepared, a Living Trust avoids the public, costly and time-consuming court processes of Arizona conservatorship or guardianship law (due to [...]
No-Contest Clause: Does No-Contest Really Mean No Contest? We live in a litigious society. Unfortunately, even family members sometimes file lawsuits because they are dissatisfied with what their parents or loved ones leave them in a will or trust. Some are so disgruntled that they decide to contest or challenge the validity of a will [...]
