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Why Can’t You Disinherit Your Children In Puerto Rico?

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Memento Mori Estate Planning Podcast: Episode 2

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Why Your Will is Your Attorney’s Retirement Plan

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Memento Mori Estate Planning Podcast: Episode 1

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Should You Have a Will or a Revocable Living Trust?

It’s the fundamental question that arises in estate and legacy planning.  Should I have a will or revocable living trust?  The answer to this question is crucial to estate planning.  Its answer informs the very building block of a workable plan.  Your goals—whether asset protection, Medicaid planning, business continuity, spousal protection, etc.—cannot be addressed until you have reached a decision on your plan’s “anchor instrument.”  Every estate plan is anchored by a core document from which other components of the plan proceed.  This instrument is either a will or a revocable living trust.  This article explores the pros and cons of each type of plan.

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Estate Property: Probate or Non-Probate?

An estate plan is not a stack of documents.  At its heart, estate planning involves arranging one’s property and affairs for use during life and disposition after death.  A person’s “gross estate” generally includes two types of property: probate and non-probate.  This article provides a brief overview of these two approaches to property distribution after death.

Probate property refers to assets that must pass through the Probate Court system before being distributed to heirs.  A probate case begins when a person (usually a potential heir of the deceased) asks the Court to open a proceeding for the administration of a decedent’s estate.  The Court will...

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