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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.
I Don’t Need A Will, My Children Will Take Care of Me
If you are a mom, you need a will. Your children don’t always know what you want and what to do!
I Don’t Need A Will, I Don’t Have Children
Women need wills, no matter if they have children or not.
The Documents In Your Estate Plan
A brief explanation of what documents are in your estate plan, or should be!