by admin | Apr 30, 2018 | & estate litigation, Estate Planning, Insurance Trusts, trust, will, Wills & Trusts
Updating your will after divorce Naming an executor If you don’t want your ex-spouse to inherit your property, you probably don’t want him or her in charge of your estate, either. But if you named your spouse as your executor (called your personal representative in...
by admin | Apr 25, 2018 | & estate litigation, Estate Planning, Insurance Trusts, trust
How Life Insurance Works After Divorce: Protecting child support & alimony income Protecting child support or alimony income is especially important for the spouse who takes primary custody of the children after the divorce. The money this spouse receives in child...
by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Estate Planning, trust, will, Wills & Trusts
Updating Your Will After Divorce: Leaving Property Pt. 4 – Relying on state law also can create some uncertainty about what happens to the property you left to your former spouse if state law revokes that provision of your will. The general rule is that the...
by admin | Apr 16, 2018 | Estate Planning, trust, will, Wills & Trusts
Updating Your Will After Divorce: Leaving Property Part 3: In some states, gifts to relatives of your former spouse are also revoked by divorce. For example, Arizona law revokes gifts in a will made to anyone related to your former spouse by blood, adoption, or...
by admin | Apr 11, 2018 | Estate Planning, Insurance Trusts, trust, will, Wills & Trusts
How Life Insurance Works in Divorce: Accounting for cash value – Some life insurance policies, particularly whole life and universal life policies, accumulate cash value over time. Each month when you make your premium payment, a portion of that money enters a...
by admin | Apr 9, 2018 | Estate Planning, trust, will, Wills & Trusts
Updating Your Will After Divorce: Leaving Property Part 2: In most states, if you get divorced after making a will, any gifts that your will makes to your former spouse are automatically revoked. For example, California law states that dissolution (divorce) or...
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