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2022 ESTATE PLANNING CHECKUP: IS YOUR ESTATE PLAN UP-TO-DATE?
Estate planning is an ongoing process, not a one-and-done type of deal. To ensure your plan works properly, it should continuously evolve along with your life circumstances and other changing conditions. Regardless of who you are, your life will inevitably change: families change, assets change, laws change, and goals change.
Planning to Protect Your Assets
The most foundational level of asset protection is planning to protect your assets in the event of your incapacity or death, because you are 100% guaranteed to have one or both of those happen to you. Protect your hard-earned assets from being lost because you overlooked something important. Take action.
Same-Gender Couples Still Face Legal Challenges Over Parental Rights—But Protections Via Estate Planning (Outside of Adoption) Are Available
Can same-gender couples use estate planning for parental rights? With the issue of marriage settled in 2015, it looked as if same-gender couples were going to have equal standing with heterosexual couples in the eyes of the law. But, do they have the automatic right to be legal parents?