You’ve just completed your divorce. Maybe it was easy and
non-confrontational or maybe it was the equivalent of legal root canal. Either way, it’s over and you’re ready
to move on with life, ready to regroup and ready to get yourself in a better
place. As with other major turning
points in your life, now is the perfect time to consider making or revising
your Estate Plan.
In case you need to know, an Estate Plan is
generally composed of a Will, a Trust, Powers of Attorney and an Advanced
Healthcare Directive.
If you had an Estate Plan when you were married, your
divorce should have cancelled any spousal rights you and your ex had in each
other (California Family Code §2024).
However it is always better make cancellations expressly and not rely
upon the Courts to get it right after you have gone. Best way to do that is to do a new Estate Plan.
After your divorce, you may have things such as a
house, banks accounts, stock accounts, retirement accounts or anything else
that your got or fought for, and at this very moment in time, you know exactly
what you have and where it is. It
should all be in your Court Papers.
Remember the Disclosures?
Remember the Marital Settlement Agreement and/or Judgment. That’s your shopping list! This is the best time to create a plan
for the future use, control and disposition of what you have, and the list
couldn’t be much easier to put together.
In the days that follow, I will give you more
reasons to create, review and revise your Estate Plan. However, if you are
interested in learning more about an Estate Plan, Wills, Trusts, Advanced
Healthcare Directives, or Divorce, Custody, Visitation, Child Support, Spousal
Support, Property Division, Modifications, Remarriage, or Pre-Nuptial
Agreements, and you live in Santa Clara County or thereabout, please contact me
at fbegun@gmail.com, or through my other websites, www.fcbegun.com, or www.linkedin.com for Fred Begun.
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