Inheritance and estate planning are too easy to postpone. Even though life is fragile, we tend to think we will live forever. You can probably come up with a number of reasons to postpone your estate planning. I don’t want to hear them. Your parents can probably
By Lee Phillips Inheritance is the way assets are passed to your family or heirs once you have died. Assets are pretty much anything you own such as real estate, stock certificates or bank accounts. The average inheritance passed in the United States today is about $200,000.
It is on the news, in the papers and on the internet. The whole world knows that Elizabeth Edwards, who died last month after a battle with breast cancer, made no mention of estranged husband John Edwards in her will.