The third week of October is always Estate Planning Awareness Week. If you're like me, you're tired of being told what to be aware of. Someone is always telling me I need to be aware of some social issue that doesn't really impact me.
But this one does. Estate Planning does impact you. Unless you know something I don't, we will all eventually need an estate plan. We will all have an illness. We will all eventually pass away. This isn't optional.
What is optional is whether you have a plan when things do go wrong. Most adult Americans never plan. This is why you'll hear people say "boy when my Dad passed away, it was a mess!".
It was a mess because Dad didn't do an estate plan or didn't have a good estate plan. Don't let this be your fate. Don't let them tell stories about how you didn't plan well. Let's get it done and let's get it done correctly.