Estate Planning Mistakes That Can Burden Your Family (Ep. 141)
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Estate planning is easy to delay until the people you love are left sorting through the fallout.
What happens when missing documents, wrong beneficiaries, or an unfunded trust create delays, costs, and family stress?
In this episode, Dennis O’Keefe shares hard-earned lessons about estate planning mistakes that can burden children and other loved ones. He covers why wills matter, how powers of attorney work, why beneficiary choices are critical, how to choose the right people for key roles, and why funding a trust may be one of the biggest steps families overlook.
Key takeaways:
- Why a will helps direct assets instead of leaving major decisions to state intestacy laws
- How durable and springing powers of attorney can affect family decisions during illness
- Why naming an estate as a beneficiary can create taxes, probate delays, and family conflict
- How choosing trustees, executors, and proxies requires judgment, not family rank
- Why an unfunded living trust may still leave your family dealing with probate costs
- And more!
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