by Amy Refeca | Aug 15, 2022 | Advance Directive for Health Care, Estate, Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, Guardianship, Healthcare POA, Incapacity, Last Will & Testament, Power of Attorney, Probate, Trusts
The Documents In Your Estate Plan! First, I want to tell you what is an “estate”? Your “estate,” for purposes of our conversation, is made up of what is in your name when you die. Your “estate” owns all of it the second after your die (figuratively speaking). Then...
by Amy Refeca | Aug 5, 2022 | Advance Directive for Health Care, Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, How We Help Women, Incapacity, Power of Attorney
Is your financial power of attorney immediate or incapacity only? Meaning, can your Agent act on behalf of you in financial transactions as soon as you signed your power of attorney, or, will your Agent ONLY be able to act if something triggers their authority to kick...
by Amy Refeca | Sep 25, 2021 | Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, Healthcare POA, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, Trusts
When should you update your estate plan??? We have been working on this six part series now for a few months, focusing on one “D” at a time. This “D”, our fifth “d” in the series, is kind of a play on words. We admit it. But it...
by Amy Refeca | Jun 18, 2021 | Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, Healthcare POA, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, Living Will, Trusts
When you should update your estate plan depends on the Six D’s. What are the “Six D’s”? They are: death, divorce, diagnosis, distance, dividend and dates. In other words, if someone or something in your last will and testament, financial...
by Amy Refeca | Jun 16, 2021 | Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, Guardianship, Healthcare POA, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, Trusts
Did your attorney ask you these three things before they signed you up? Why? Who? What? If not, your estate plan may not be the right plan for you, your family, your kids. Wills, powers of attorney for finance and advance directives for health care and trusts work for...
by Amy Refeca | Jun 3, 2021 | Estate Planning, Financial Power of Attorney, Guardianship, Healthcare POA, How We Help Women, Last Will & Testament, Trusts
When should you update your estate plan? We focus on the Six “D”s when we work with clients and educate others. The first “D” of when you should pull out your estate planning documents and think of whether they need to be updated or not is D...
