Are Your Kids Prepared to Handle Your Finances After You’re Gone?

Many estate planners tend to focus on the difficulty of children to get their parents to talk about upcoming estate and capacity issues. In this article, Boomer-Living reverses the usual scenario and gives tips to parents for engaging the children in that conversation. Click on the link below to read the story. The attached photo is also from that article on boomer-living.com.

Are Your Kids Prepared to Handle Your Finances After You’re Gone?

Something to Consider if You Are Cohabiting

The article attached talks about the position one common law spouse can be left in when the other passes away. In particular, it talks about older individuals who are in second relationships. The situation depends, of course, on the laws in place in each location, but this article does a good job of illustrating what can happen. In Alberta, common law relationships are covered by the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act, and so include both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. Click the link below to read this article from Boomer-Living:

Something to Consider if You Are Cohabiting

To Trust or Not to Trust… That is the Question?

In estate planning, there is always plenty of talk about trusts. This article tackles the basic questions of "what are trusts?" and "do you need a trust?". Click on the link below to read the article.

To Trust or Not to Trust… That is the Question?