Monthly Archives: February 2026
The Self-Consciously Incomplete Estate Plan
The scariest thing about estate planning is that death is forever. How do you make financial plans for all eternity, especially when you will not be around to implement them? It sounds like a thought experiment, the only logical conclusion to which is resignation, like the anticlimactic ending of the Gilgamesh epic, where the… Read More »
Pre-Mortem Probate Is Not An Option In Florida
Some people plan their funerals in such detail that you get the feeling that they wish they could attend their own funeral. They pick out the outfit they want to wear in their open casket, and they have it dry cleaned and hang it in the front of their closet, still wrapped in the… Read More »
401(k) Accounts And Your Estate Plan
Professional financial planners and the personal finance charlatans of the Internet will try to persuade you of all kinds of glamorous ways to invest your money, but like so many other unsung but consistently employed chumps, you know that boring is best. You can’t go wrong with a 401(k) account where you signed up… Read More »
Which Assets Do Not Belong In A Revocable Trust?
The probate courts aim to oversee honest dealings with the estates of recently deceased people. A relative who claims to have a copy of the decedent’s will must submit it to the probate court. This way, anyone who doubts the validity of the will may challenge it and get a judge to rule on… Read More »