Before first visiting your attorneys office, you may find it useful to do a bit of general reading about estate planning topics. Although arriving without any background knowledge is perfectly acceptable, it can help you come up with questions geared to your unique set of assets.
In keeping with this idea, the American Bar Association (ABA) has suggested some Internet websites for clients in its Guide to Wills and Estates, Third Edition. Several of their ideas are set forth below, along with a few others. This article also includes some Minnesota legal links that should prove equally helpful.
Great Internet Minnesota Wills and Trusts Reading Resources for New (or Returning) Estate Planning Clients
- The Minnesota Attorney Generals Probate and Estate Planning links;
- The Minnesota Judicial Branch’s materials on Probate, Wills & Estates;
- The ABA’s Estate Planning Glossary/Dictionary;
- Estate Planning for an Owner-Dependent Business. You can find an equally helpful article on this topic already posted on our firms website: Small Business Estate Planning in Minnesota;
- General ABA Material on Wills, Jointly Owned Property, and Trusts; and more;
- Information about buying legal documents online. Don’t let legal form websites mislead you about their reliability. Instead, first read attorney Will Denham’s excellent article entitled, Three Problems with Every Legal Zoom (Brief article summary your local Minnesota estate planning attorney will always be better informed and able to help you than a general form factory website);
- AARP’s Estate Planning website
By spending just a half-hour or more reading some of this material, you’ll gain a deeper understanding about how your lawyer can help you build the best estate plan possible for your family’s needs. Likewise, time spent reviewing the estate planning glossary/dictionary should prove especially useful before meeting with your Minnesota estate planning attorney.
Additional Resources/Articles Already Posted on Our Website
- How to Probate a Will in Minnesota;
- Should you even consider obtaining a reverse mortgage?
- Minnesota Will contests;
- Why nearly all of us need to include long-term care insurance in our estate plans;
- Why even the young or those with limited wealth should immediately obtain a Will.
Conclusions
Once you’ve read one or more of these articles, you’ll begin to see why estate planning is really all about finding the best ways to properly provide for yourself and your family today as well as in the more distant future. We hope you’ll contact our office soon so we can help you immediately begin benefiting from careful, early planning.
Free Consultation a Minnesota Estate Planning Lawyer
Please contact Joseph M Flanders, a Minnesota estate planning attorney, for your free initial consultation and to seek help answering your questions at 612-424-0398.
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