SecondAttempt
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
My ex-wife and I had an estate plan done by an attorney after her mother died about 20 years ago. Even though I thought I was fairly knowledgeable, I certainly learned a lot. There was no pressure or fear tactics at all. We met with her mother's lawyer, explained our wishes, and he said, we probably would not need anything too complicated. There were a few specific people in my family that I wanted to not inherit anything. We had no kids and no mortgage or other debts. So fairly simple but not cookie cutter. He set up a living trust, wills, living wills, and various powers-of-attorney all for about $700 total for both of us and even helped get all our accounts properly retitled. I thought it was a bargain.
We divorced a few years ago and dissolved the trust as part of that. I also now live in a different state. My partner and I are not married (yet?) but the partner of one of her cousins died suddenly several months ago after a hospital stay and Hawaii is such that they would barely let the partner visit him in the hospital much less give her information or let her make decisions when he couldn't even though they had been together for many years. So getting medical POAs and living wills set up is high on the agenda and I will probably have the lawyer write wills as well. I will probably skip the trust at this point until we get married.
We divorced a few years ago and dissolved the trust as part of that. I also now live in a different state. My partner and I are not married (yet?) but the partner of one of her cousins died suddenly several months ago after a hospital stay and Hawaii is such that they would barely let the partner visit him in the hospital much less give her information or let her make decisions when he couldn't even though they had been together for many years. So getting medical POAs and living wills set up is high on the agenda and I will probably have the lawyer write wills as well. I will probably skip the trust at this point until we get married.
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