When it comes to estate planning it is not only important to have the right documents, but it is crucial to have thought through the people who will be the beneficiaries, child custodians, and especially any individuals who will hold power of attorney over your affairs. A power of attorney is a legal document that gives another person the authority to make specific decisions on your behalf, as well as to act on your behalf in regards to those powers. They may be created for f

A growing concern for those managing the process of closing an estate is figuring out where deceased actively maintained accounts and kept items on the web. We often plan for ‘physical assets’, but as Claudia Buck points out in this recent article, many do not have a plan in place for “digital assets.” What happens to our online accounts and assets like photographs is important to consider as it can be difficult to find all places where accounts exist and take control of them

It’s November 2 as I write this blog. A normal day, albeit Election Day, but to fans of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., today is much more important. Rigney (pen name Robert Jordan) was the author of The Wheel of Time, a series of epic fantasy novels. Although the non-fantasy reader may not have heard of him, he has been compared to J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, etc.) and other 20th-century masters of fiction. I’m certain that one day we will see Rigney’s work port