Your Estate Plan and Swine Flu

The world is getting ready for a swine flu pandemic, and it is now time for you to pay attention to your estate planning tasks. With the swine flu closing in on the world, now is the time to get your estate plan out and dust it off. If you don’t have your estate plan in place, you need to get it in place now. There are four legal tools you need to form the basic foundation of your estate plan.

You won’t find many lawyer guarantees, but as an attorney, I can give you a great guarantee. If you make sure your estate plan is in place, it will be worth every effort you make and every dime you spend just for the peace of mind it will give you. Yes, a good estate plan will also give your family a lot more money after you die. Of course you are not going to die as a result of the swine flu pandemic, but you will die, and you will need to have your full estate plan before you die. The swine flu scare just brings to the forefront your mortality and your need to get your estate plan totally in place.

The four legal tools you need in place are:

1. A testamentary will
2. A living trust
3. A durable power-of-attorney
4. A directive to the medical profession, aka, living will

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