Happy Sunday!

Short message today as I’m currently sitting in the Kansas City airport waiting to catch a flight back to Seattle after a great weekend with friends.

This is something we hear from time to time when talking to clients/potential clients about estate planning that I wanted to clear up.

Two things actually.

First, if you have a Will and it needs to be used you will have to go through probate to make distributions.

The Will doesn’t prevent probate – it just tells the world where you want everything to go – and it controls distributions.

Second, if you have to go through probate, with or without a Will, the government WILL NOT take any of your assets.

Your assets will get to the right person through the probate process – there is no government seizure because you need to go through probate.

That’s it for today.

Have a great week!

Cheers.

Christopher Small
Founder/CEO
CMS Law Firm LLC

PS – don’t keep this estate planning stuff to yourself – you know it’s important and we LOVE referrals!