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Women and Estate Planning in Georgia
A Simple Guide for Women in Georgia about Estate Planning. Estate planning is often seen as something that only the super-wealthy or older people need to worry about, but it’s something every woman should consider—no matter her stage in life. Whether you’re a single...
Funding Your Life Insurance Into Your Living Trust
Funding is the key to ensuring your Living Trust works for you and your family. Most people who have trust have life insurance. How do you make sure that life insurance proceeds are protected for your family? You make sure that your life insurance is funded...
Trust Funding: Protect Your Home!
Real estate is a key asset to protect with your living trust. Make sure that you home, your real estate, is funded properly.
Trust Funding: How Do You Fund a Bank Account?
Bank Accounts need to be properly funded into your revocable living trust. Make sure yours are funded. Check out this blog post about how to do that and steps you can take if they are not.
Trust Funding: Why Is This So Important To My Trust Plan?
Trust Funding is THE most important aspect of estate planning because it is the only way you can ensure what you want to have happen actually happens.
What does “Trust Funding” Mean: Revocable Living Trusts
What does it mean to fund your revocable living trust?
Georgia Psychiatric Advance Directive: A way FOR WOMEN to choose when you potentially cannot due to mental health crisis.
In 2022, a new legal form came into being: Psychiatric Advance Directive. A link to this form in PDF fillable version can be found on the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network's website. The acronym for this form is PAD. What does this form do that your Advance...
Your Financial Power of Attorney Dies With You
Actually, the authority your agent under your power of attorney dies with you! In Georgia, once a person passes away, the authority granted by a financial power of attorney typically comes to an end. So, if you've given your child, sister, spouse, friend the power to...
What is a Trust = A Beautiful Wooden Box
What is a trust? This is a super common question we get at Atlanta Wills and Trusts. It is typically followed up by a few additional questions. Do I need a trust? Do I need a will if I have a trust? Short answers: A trust is a beautiful wooden box. You put things...
A Living Trust is Like The Hope Chest At The Foot of Your Grandmother’s Guest Bed
Women need revocable living trusts because trusts are the best way to protect assets for women and ensure their assets are there for them when they need them.