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Boo! The Scariest Estate Planning Blunders (And How to Avoid Them)

Published on: 10/27/2026

Halloween is the one time of year we choose to be frightened. Haunted houses, fake cobwebs, a neighbor who hands out full-size candy bars). But some frights aren’t fun, and few are scarier than what happens to a family when an estate plan goes wrong.

Boo! The Scariest Estate Planning Blunders (And How to Avoid Them)

Back to School, Back to Your Binder: Why September Is Secretly Estate Planning Season

Published on: 09/15/2026

Back-to-school season is basically a free calendar reminder for grown-up things. Your kids are leveling up — new grade, new backpack, new questionable haircut they chose themselves — and your legal paperwork should level up with them.

Back to School, Back to Your Binder: Why September Is Secretly Estate Planning Season

Please, For the Love of Grandma’s China, Don’t Let a Chatbot Write Your Will or Trust

Published on: 08/28/2026

Look, I get it. You’ve got a chatbot that can write a sonnet about your cat, debug your Python, and explain quantum entanglement in the voice of a pirate. Surely it can handle something as simple as “who gets the house when I die”?

Please, For the Love of Grandma’s China, Don’t Let a Chatbot Write Your Will or Trust

Congratulations, You’re Rich Enough to Die Comfortably (Probably)

Published on: 07/23/2026

Here’s the twist nobody tells you at cocktail parties: just because the IRS has chilled out doesn’t mean your estate plan gets to. In fact, “not owing estate tax” has quietly become the least interesting part of estate planning.