Looking For Estate Planning Documents (Buyer Beware)
In this world you get what you pay for and one legal document or plan does not equal another legal document or plan. Very specific types of comprehensive languages and legal documents are needed.
Who Needs an Estate Plan? Estate Planning
Anyone over the age of 18 needs an estate plan, not necessarily because they are rich, but because everyone has something, and an estate plan helps ensure your family doesn’t have to go thru a court process typically known as probate.
Estate Planning Basics – Overview: Becky Cholewka
What is estate planning? What do you want to happen when you die? Are you an organ donor? Do you want to be cremated? How do you want your assets distributed? Who do you want to make decisions for you if you aren’t able to make decisions on your own? Take care of your family and ensure your wishes are followed. Call Cholewka Law in Gilbert today.
Becky Cholewka on the Carol Blonder Show
Carol Blonder: My next guest is Becky Cholewka, and she is the owner of Cholewka Law. Becky, you’ve got to tell everybody a little bit about how you got to be an attorney.
What is Probate, and Why Would My Property Go Through Probate if I Have a Trust?
Becky Cholewka: One of the hardest things to deal with is to deal with the loss of a loved one. When we’re working with clients who have had a recent loss, it’s very emotional time, but it’s a time where I see a lot of people make mistakes. Mistake number one I see is that […]
The Importance of Keeping Your Estate Planning Documents Updated
Becky Cholewka: Hi, everyone. One thing I always want to remind people is you need to make sure that you are keeping your legal documents updated. Every few years, I’d like you to make sure that you’re going back to your estate planning attorney and having them review to see if there’s been any new […]
Discussing Your Estate Plan With Your Family
Becky Cholewka: Sometimes you want to make sure that you have discussions with your family regarding your estate plan so that there are no surprises. However, that’s a really particular individualized call. For example, there are some families that are just really fractured, or maybe we are disinheriting some children. We know that if we […]
Deciding Who Will Raise Your Children if You Are Divorced
Becky Cholewka: One of the most difficult choices for folks when they are dealing with the estate planning documents if they have minor kids is who’s going to raise those minor kids if something should happen to both parents. That actually gets even more complicated if a couple divorces because now sometimes through that divorce, […]
Can Your Trust Protect You From Creditors
Becky Cholewka: I get asked a lot, “Becky, I want to make sure that I have the trust that protects me from creditors.” The problem with that is there are very few trusts that actually have creditor protection for you when you are alive. Talking about different types of trusts, there is actually 30 or […]
Can I Make Handwritten Changes to My Will
Becky Cholewka: A question I get a lot is, “Becky, can I make a handwritten change to one of my legal documents?” Handwritten changes very rarely work. A lot of it will depend on the rules of the state that you execute that document in, what the rules of valid execution are. For example, there […]
