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5 signs your estate planning attorney is not good.

| | Estate Planning
5 signs your estate planning attorney is not good. Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.
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Why Specific Asset Directives are a Bad Idea… | Rich Life Letter #020

| | Estate Planning, Newsletters
Unless you’ve been in a cave the last 10 days or so, you know there is conflict in the Ukraine. And, while that ignites all of the usual thoughts about war and totalitarianism and news narratives and all of the other things, because I’m a dorky estate planning attorney it also gets me thinking about asset distribution and why in most cases specific asset directives are a bad idea. Before I get to the punchline (and this one will be…
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How Doctors Die… | Rich Life Letter #019

| | Estate Planning, Newsletters
If you’ve completed your estate plan with me you are fully aware of the part of the process where you have to decide whether or not to remain on life support if you are in a vegetative state – for many people it’s the most difficult decision of all of those being made. Many people ask me what I’d do or what most people do, or some variation on that theme. I always tell them people are all over the…
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WA state estate tax change that MATTERS.

| | Estate Planning
WA state estate tax change that MATTERS. Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.
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The 2 limitations of a will.

| | Estate Planning
The 2 limitations of a will. Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.
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Should I get a testamentary trust?

| | Estate Planning
Should I get a testamentary trust? Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.
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The trust doesn’t actually own anything.

| | Estate Planning
The trust doesn’t actually own anything. Cheers, Christopher Small Estate Planning Attorney PS – Click here to schedule a FREE strategy session with an estate planning attorney.
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