Estate Planning Information
General, educational information to help you understand estate planning before you decide how to move forward. Nothing here is individualized legal advice.
What estate planning covers
Most estate plans work with the same handful of tools -- wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health-care documents -- to address your property, who can act for you, your health-care wishes, and planning for the people who depend on you. The guides below cover each one in detail; for a plain-language walkthrough of how it all fits together, see the Estate Planning overview.
Powers of Attorney
- Powers of Attorney
Name someone you trust to manage financial matters on your behalf if you're unable to.
Health-Care Planning
- Health-Care Planning
Name a medical decision-maker and document your own wishes about certain treatment.
Planning for Children
- Planning for Children
Make informed decisions involving guardians and planning for minor children.
Property, Deeds & Trust Funding
- Trust Funding
Understand why transferring ownership of property into a trust matters to a trust-based plan.
- Estate Planning Deeds
General information about the deeds sometimes used to fund a trust or transfer real property.
Updating Your Plan
- Reviewing or Updating an Estate Plan
Understand when changed circumstances may make it appropriate to review or update an existing plan.
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