Estate Planning Workshop-How to Create a Plan to Protect you and Your Family

At the workshop, we will discuss several issues including: • WILLS AND LIVING TRUSTS: Learn the advantages and disadvantages of both, and how choosing the wrong one for you can be a mistake. • PROBATE: How to keep your information private and avoid going to court. Make it easier on your family to handle your affairs when you pass away. • INCAPACITY PLANNING: Make your wishes known with an Advance Health Care Directive and also avoid the public process and expense of a conservatorship if you become disabled or incapacitated. • NURSING HOME COST: Protect your assets from nursing home cost, which average over $116,000 per year in California. • DIVORCE: Preserve your children’s inheritance in the event they get a divorce…up to 50% of their inheritance could end up with their ex-spouse. • CREDITOR PROTECTION: Learn how you can protect your children’s inheritance from their creditors. • REMARRIAGE: Prevent your assets from going to a stranger instead of your children if your spouse gets remarried after your death. • SPECIAL NEEDS PLANNING: Learn how to properly provide for children and grandchildren with Special Needs so that their inheritance does not disqualify them from government benefits they may be receiving.