Estate Law News

Vermont has become the first state in the U.S. to update its end-of-life choice law to make it legal for nonresidents to pursue medically assisted suicide.

A crucial, yet often overlooked, component of estate planning is reviewing assets, such as 401(k)s, pensions, and savings accounts, and ensuring you have listed a beneficiary for each of these.

Many power of attorney forms allow for a variety of options in designating who may act as your agent. Depending on the rules of your state, this can be one person or more than one person.

Powers of attorney that only allow an agent to do certain things are commonly referred to as a limited power of attorney.

While financial planning has been at the top of many Americans’ minds, a vast majority of people have stalled in creating an estate plan.

If you wish to maintain control during your lifetime over the assets you place in a trust, you may choose to establish a revocable, or “living” trust – most likely, along with a pour over will.

Estate planning is an important consideration for all couples. However, for LGBTQ+ couples (or former couples), it may be more important than they realize to review their circumstances and see whether they have an estate plan that accurately reflects their wishes.

A QLAC is an annuity that you purchase with funds from an IRA, 401(k), or 403(b) account and that guarantees you will receive retirement income on a set schedule.

People create wills to establish what happens to their money and assets when they pass away. In these documents, they can name beneficiaries – individuals who will receive those assets upon the person’s death.

Wills contain important information about who receives money, possessions, and property upon a person’s death. Who can view this information, and is it a public record?