National Estate Planning Awareness Week
(Oct. 15-21).
What’s that? As Forbes Senior Editor Deborah
L. Jacobs put it in a recent post: “It’s
a bit of a contrivance by lawyers in the field to get you to seek out their
services. But it’s also a good time to take stock of your life and do what’s
necessary.”
National Estate Planning
Awareness Week has come and gone. Nevertheless, estate planning is a mindset
and a rational behavior that is never out of season.
While proper estate planning is
no Do-It-Yourself project and competent legal counsel should be retained, there
is plenty of literature available to help you learn the basics of estate
planning and beyond. Leave it to Forbes
to compile “The Forbes Guide To Estate Planning”
from its storehouse of past estate planning articles. Of course, these 40 some
articles give only the Forbes
perspective, but it’s a quick glimpse at the panoply of topics and worth a
read.
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articles I come across on elder law and estate planning topics every day.
Reference: Forbes (October
14, 2012) “The Forbes Guide To Estate Planning”