Issue 29.09
5. Dislike for Attorneys or Formal Documents. There are places situations some people want to avoid: the dentist’s office, a used car lot, and the attorney’s office, are examples. However, there is no better time to meet with an attorney than when making your estate plan. This is your chance to control the legal system by making your estate plan documents solve legal problems that might otherwise arise. If you don’t take your opportunity to do so, then the legal system will control your estate and what you wanted to have happen might in fact have little to do with what actually happens to your estate.
6. Lack of Ability to Plan for the Future. Many people feel inadequate and unable to plan for the future. However, going through the process of thinking about their property and what to do with it helps them evaluate and conserve them with greater understanding. Isn’t it interesting that we work, save, and plan all our lives on how to make and keep our money, but we won’t spend the bit of time it takes to determine how it should be distributed at our deaths.
7. Reluctance to Place Confidence in Others. Deciding who can help us and be trusted tends to delay a good many people. I have limited my practice to work almost exclusively in estate planning and distribution matters. In deciding who to have help you, you should feel free to interview your attorney before he begins working for you to be sure he has the experience and insight sufficient to help you in the estate planning legal world. After all, you are his or her boss. You are paying him or her to do work for you. You have the right to make sure they know what they are doing.
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