It’s the Holidays – Time for a Serious Discussion with your Loved Ones
By Jeff Wagoner, W M Law President
I absolutely love the holidays. It is a wonderful time for me mainly because I get to spend time with family that I rarely see throughout the remainder of the year. So, it’s a great time to catch up on their lives and listen to their joys and concerns about their life. It’s also a great time to discuss some issues that are difficult to discuss, but may make a difficult time in the future a little easier. Now, you don’t need to be in your golden years to have this discussion. This advice applies to “twenty-somethings” just as much (maybe more in some ways) as it does with great-grandmas. Last month, my blog was about the heart-breaking story that was shared by another attorney of when his family was in an horrific traffic accident that claimed the lives of both of his parents and an infant sibling. He and his toddler aged sister survived. His young parents had not done any sort of estate plan, and as a result, the two young surviving children became wards of the court for placement among family members. Don’t let that happen to […]