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Legal Issues and Swine Flu
The world is getting ready for a swine flu pandemic, and it is now time for you to pay attention to your estate planning tasks. Assuming you’ve got an estate plan, now is the time to get out your estate plan and start checking it over. Oh, you don’t have an estate plan? Well, now would be a good time to get it up and running. Every estate plan has a basic foundation consisting of four basic legal tools.
Lawyers don’t make a lot of guarantees, but I’m a lawyer, and I can make you a guarantee. If you make sure your estate plan is in place, it will be worth every effort you make and every dime you spend just for the peace of mind it will give you. If you have a great estate plan, your family will get more money when you die. The swine flu probably isn’t going to be your demise, but someday you will die, and you had better have your estate plan in place. All the swine flu headlines should give you a wakeup call to recognize your mortality and evaluate your estate plan.
You need the following four legal tools.
1. A will2. An inter vivos trust (living trust)
3. A durable power of attorney
4. A living will