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Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financially Organized

The Terror of Inheriting a Mess Part 3: Your Scary Stories Continued

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Mature woman frustrated
14
Nov

After sharing Part 1 and Part 2 of the Inheriting a Mess and scary stories series, and since I keep receiving comments, emails, and shared stories from readers and other women I have talked with recently, I thought it only fitting to finish with one more blog on the scariest day of the year (Happy Halloween!). I hope that…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

The Terror of Inheriting a Mess: Part 1

Posted on by Marie Burns
Mature woman reading paper
03
Oct

What do you do when you inherit a mess? Where do you start? How do you move forward? Part of one woman’s solution, Heather Parker, was to become an estate planning attorney to help others avoid the same mess she experienced in her family. Most of us can’t choose that response but let’s take a…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Avoid These 3 Common Estate Planning Mistakes

Posted on by Marie Burns
estate planning
11
Mar

We humans have an understandable tendency to take action on things that are important to us in the moment. And until we have something happen in our lives that remind us that our risk of mortality is 100%, we often leave the “when I’m gone” wishes on the back burner. This is why 60% of…

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Estate Planning, Financial Advocate, Financial Planning, Financially Organized

10 Things to Consider if You Need a Revocable Trust

Posted on by Marie Burns
Revocable Trust
22
Nov

In October, National Estate Planning Awareness Month, I spoke with an estate planning attorney, Amanda Pyper Ruiz at Same Day Wills, who shared some great tips and things to think about when considering the will vs trust question or updating a trust. With her permission, I am including her helpful information below.  You may find…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Is Your “Who Get’s What” In Writing?

Posted on by Marie Burns
Who gets what
08
Nov

Have you ever had a goal you couldn’t seem to get accomplished but then when there was a special event added to the calendar, it somehow got done? Losing weight before a wedding, completing a home project before company comes to stay, or finishing a gift before the birthday/holiday, for example? There is something about…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

The Month to Focus on Your Estate Planning

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Estate planning awareness month
19
Oct

Common Beliefs Have you ever found yourself or heard someone else saying: “I’m too young to do estate planning.” “All my property is titled in joint tenancy with my spouse so I don’t need any estate planning documents.” “Estate planning is only for the super-rich.” “Estate planning is too complicated and expensive.” “We did our…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Can You Relate to These Common Estate Planning Mistakes?

Posted on by Marie Burns
estate planning mistakes
21
Jul

When you stop and think about it, choosing to do nothing in advance about something negative that is guaranteed to happen seems illogical, doesn’t it? And yet, human nature is that we avoid thinking about negative things, which is why the majority of Americans still die without having estate planning documents in place, for example….

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Have You Told Your Assets Where to Go?

Posted on by Marie Burns
begin with the end in mind
05
Jul

Best Seller Advice Begin with the end in mind. “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey was written over 15 years ago but is still a best seller for good reason. His timeless advice is applicable across many aspects of our lives, business or personal. One of his recommended seven habits is…

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Estate Planning, Financial Advocate, Financial Planning, Financially Organized

It Happens to All of Us, But Most of Us Don’t Plan For It

Posted on by Marie Burns
couple at laptop
04
Feb

What are the odds of getting hit by a bus? 1 in 495,000. Not happening to me, right? But what are the odds that you’re going to die someday? Exactly. Yet only 40% of us put any documents in place about what we want to happen when we die. I always say this topic is…

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Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Who Gets What When You’re Gone?

Posted on by Marie Burns
older couple computer
05
Nov

The sooner you communicate your wishes, the less stress and potentially broken relationships there will be in the end. When one of my nieces was just a little thing, maybe 4 or 5 years old, she saw a spoon rack on her grandmother’s wall (my mother-in-law). It is one of those wooden shelves that hold…

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