By Patricia C. KraftAfter your death, your assets will be owned by others. The transfers of your assets will occur in various ways, depending on how each asset was owned […]
When you create a will or trust, you will name the person who will carry out your wishes after your death. This decision deserves serious consideration. Making the choice might […]
When I write or speak about estate planning, I spend little time talking about wills. How can I neglect that topic? Isn’t a will the most critical part of an […]
Attending to the chore of getting an estate plan done may seem like an unnecessarily expensive, difficult process that you probably don’t need anyway because you don’t have very much […]
Sometimes the things we ought to do (estate planning) get sidetracked by the urgencies of life. When people die without an estate plan, and they own probate assets, the family […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
