by Amy Refeca | Feb 26, 2024 | News
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...
by Amy Refeca | Feb 22, 2024 | Estate, Estate Planning, Last Will & Testament, Probate, Revocable Living Trust, Trusts
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...
by Amy Refeca | Feb 1, 2024 | Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Revocable Living Trust, Trusts
Revocable Living Trusts are real and women, especially, should consider having a living trust as part of their estate plan. Not because my grandmother, one of the best women who ever lived, had a hope chest at the foot of her bed. Women need living trusts because...
by Amy Refeca | Jan 25, 2024 | Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament
We are jumping into the arena of “I don’t need a will because…” again. This time, we are talking about women who say they don’t need a will because their children will take care of them. Well, that may be true. Or maybe it isn’t....
by Amy Refeca | Jan 18, 2024 | Estate Planning, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament
As a wills attorney, I hear quite often the phrase “I don’t need a will because…” Today I’ll finish that sentence off with ….. “I do not have children.” My immediate response is to ask them whether or not they an opinion...
