This article explores essential estate-planning documents, including the key differences and similarities between a Last Will and Testament and ...

As people move through their lives, making sure children are fed and work is taken care of, planning a trust, an estate, or a will might seem unimportant. But one […] ...

I was talking to some friends the other day about wills and trusts. They seemed to have a variety of opinions, so can you straighten things out for me? I don’t have a will or a trust, and my financial ...

Dear Liz: I understand what happens with a living trust when both spouses die at once. But what happens when just one dies? Is the trust tossed out, since the surviving spouse is usually the trustee?

Complex matters. Online wills fail miserably when they are used for any situation out of the ordinary, such as blended ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Along with a Will and a Trust, the most common documents used in estate ...

Wills and trust are often thought of as the main components of an estate plan – the documents that determine who will receive our assets at death. However, simple beneficiary designation forms, which ...

A will signed and witnessed by two individuals is generally presumed to have been duly executed. The burden of proving due ...

Q. I was talking to some friends the other day about wills and trusts. They seemed to have a variety of opinions, so can you straighten things out for me? I don’t have a will or a trust, and my ...

The following contribution to our arbitration symposium is by David Horton. David is an Associate Professor at Loyola, where he joined the faculty in 2009. He primarily writes and teaches in the ...