The Problem Isn’t the Will. It’s Everything Else. When Priya’s mother passed away in February, she had a will. Signed, witnessed, stored with a lawyer. By every standard measure, her mother had done the right thing. But when Priya showed Read more
He Told Me Three Things. Every One of Them Was Wrong. Marcel isn’t an unreasonable man. He has a will. He’s thought about what happens when he dies, at least enough to put something on paper. He loves his five Read more
What Happens to an Inheritance If Your Child Is Divorcing? Most estate plans are written with a simple assumption: assets move from parent to child, and from there, life takes its course. But life doesn’t stay simple. One of the Read more
The Estate Planning Mistake Many Blended Families Don’t See Coming When Diane married for the second time at 58, she and her new husband spent more time planning the wedding than reviewing their wills. Both had adult children from previous Read more
What MAID Means for Your Estate Plan Margaret had been thinking about it for two years. After her ALS diagnosis, she’d done her research, spoken with her doctor, and made her decision. She knew the date. Her family knew the Read more
What Retirement In Canada Would Look Like for ‘The Golden Girls’ Inspired by “What Retirement Would Look Like for ‘The Golden Girls’ in Today’s Economy” published May 2, 2026 by Stacy Sare Cohen at GOBankingRates. All figures in this Canadian Read more
Estate Planning in Your 30s: What Nobody Told You A few weeks ago, someone in their early 30s told me she’d been meaning to sort out a will for a couple of years. She and her partner had just bought Read more
Most Executors Don’t Know They Can Be Paid Most people who agree to be an executor do it out of love, loyalty, or a sense of obligation. It feels like the right thing to do. It rarely feels like a Read more
Cognitive Decline Can Sneak Up on Us Every family has their own version of this story. A parent starts showing signs, forgetting recent conversations, getting confused about finances, making decisions that seem out of character. The kids look at each Read more
Where Estate Plans Usually Fall Short There’s a gap in most people’s estate plans, and the frustrating part is that it’s completely avoidable. The even more frustrating part is that when that gap shows up, it’s rarely the person with Read more
