This is a simple one; of course, you love your children. You love them more than anything and would do everything in your power to protect them. An Estate Plan shows your love for your children and protects them long after you pass away. Cost may be a concern. However, to protect them now instead of leaving them with a head ache after you are gone will ultimately be cheaper.
In fact, many give annually well over $1,500 to $5,000 to charities, which is generally how much an Estate Plan can cost depending on a variety of factors. This is amazing and we applaud such generosity. Such donations provide relief to many people who are in need. Now consider the benefit of helping your children by spending that same amount of money on estate planning. A one-time donation, with the occasional update throughout the years is certainly a viable option. Give a gift to your children. Give them a customized personalized Estate Plan that will provide for them in the years to come.
Government benefits are often hard to navigate. 
Sometimes the unthinkable happens. Sometimes people make poor choices, which leave them unable to make wise decisions. These can vary from something small, which can be overcome quickly, to something major and life changing, which can take years to overcome. If one of your children is in the middle of such a life changing problem 
When you get married, you expect that marriage to last forever. Unfortunately, the sad truth is many marriages end in divorce or one spouse dies and the other goes on to remarry. In those cases, you would generally want the assets you acquired during the first marriage to go to the children of that marriage. 
xt series of blogs, I will be answering some questions as to why it is important for everyone to create an Estate Plan. Many people think of Estate Plans as something extra, or something you do when you have a lot of assets, but this is not the case. Everyone, no matter how 
Out of all of my siblings, I only have two that are married. One is my brother, Tyler, who is an accountant and the other is my sister, Heather, who works as a nurse. They both have very different personalities and one is from my dad’s first marriage while the other is from my mom’s 
e reign of Augustus Caesar, the Roman army suffered its worst loss and defeat in the German wilderness during 9 A.D. Because of that loss, Augustus bequeathed in his estate plan to his successor, Tiberius, the virtue of Prudence, stating “be satisfied with the status quo and suppress completely any desire to increase the