One of the great things about estate planning is that it is a customizable process. Depending on your needs and the way in which you want your assets distributed upon your death, you can tailor your estate plan accordingly. While this is a relief to many, it can also...
Sun City Estate Planning Blog
Wills and the importance of witnesses
There are many legal tools available to Arizonans who are wanting to engage in estate planning. While many of these tools seem relatively easy to create, and there are even a number of self-help and do-it-yourself resources, these documents can actually raise...
How to organize digital assets in estate planning
When creating a will, people know to include information about how to divide property and money. However, things are not so cut-and-dry when it comes to digital property. Social media accounts and other items that exist online are still relatively new to legal...
Two years after his death, Prince’s estate still not distributed
Although legal professionals like us tend to harp on the importance of estate planning, some individuals fail to take notice until something bad happens to them or their loved ones. Stories about celebrities can be illustrative, too, as is the case of former pop...
Arizona firm helping families establish trusts
Estate planning is important for a variety of reasons. Amongst those reasons are the protection of an estate's assets. Although a will may be able to help delineate how property is to be distributed upon one's death, the document itself, if improperly drafted can be...
The benefits of the charitable trust
When it comes to estate planning, you have a variety of legal tools at your disposal. You can create a will that spells out how your assets will be distributed upon your death, but you can also create a number of trusts to help both protect your estate and ensure that...
What does an estate executor do?
Arizonans who are either engaging in initial estate planning or revisiting an existing estate plan have a lot of important decisions to make. Not only do they need to consider how they want their assets to be distributed upon their death, but they have to be diligent...
Is the AB trust right for me? Part 2
Ideally, an individual will have an iron-clad estate plan in place before passing away. This would allow one's estate to be distributed according to one's wishes while at the same time avoiding unnecessary expenses. Yet, we all know that the ideal is rarely achieved,...
Should your loved ones have to pay your debt after you die?
Like many retired Arizonans, you have built a sizeable estate that you are pleased to share with your loved ones when you are gone. However, you may also have significant debt that keeps you up at night worrying. What happens if you do not pay all of your debt before...
Is the AB trust right for me? Part 1
There are a variety of tools at one's disposal when it comes to formulating a solid estate plan. In order to ensure that an estate plan is tailored to an individual's unique needs and wishes, they must become familiar with all options available to them and decide...

