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The “right” choice for estate plan distributions. Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.

This is the transcript of the video… enjoy!Everybody, Christopher Small here from CMS Law Firm and today I wanted to hop on here real quick and talk to you about a question that I get actually quite often when I’m doing estate planning, consultation and stuff like that. People are curious about or they’re worried about people contesting their wills or contesting their trust and having to go through that sort of litigious process and fight through that. They want…

Why you shouldn’t be worried about someone contesting your will (if you do it right…) Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.

Today I want to talk to you about the foundational estate plan that everyone should have in an estate plan. Often people just wonder, “Okay, what kind of plan should I have? Do I need a plan? Why?” And today what I really wanted to do was just break down for you really quickly the foundational estate plan that everyone should have no matter what. Whether you’re married or single, whether you have kids or don’t, whether you have a…

One of the things we all think about when it comes to protecting our kids is what happens if we die? That’s great. And it’s important (it’s called guardianship – and you do that via your Will), BUT it’s not everything. What people often fail to think about and fail to plan for, to their detriment, is what happens in that circumstance where something happens to them but they don’t die. Perfect example. It’s date night night. You and your…

Note: these are my show notes – a general outline of the episode. If you want all of the information, you MUST listen to the episode. “Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.” – Learned Hand Before we get started, some ground rules. First, this is not…

Estate planning is a lot like potty training. I know this for two reasons. First, I know estate planning. I’m an estate planning attorney. That’s all we do here. Second, I know potty training. I just started potty training my third kid. The similarities are mind blowing… First, no one wants to do their estate plans. They don’t like to think about death or the family drama that will be caused when they die, or they just don’t have the…