Estate Planning: It’s For Young People, Too
I teach Estate Planning and Administration from an attorney/paralegal perspective at Shepherd Univerity to a classroom comprised mostly of seniors. That is senior, young and getting ready graduate and start their journey to retirement and asset protection. I think they are finally starting to get it as I take every opportunity to make the concepts applicable to them as well as their families. I had a representative from Hospice of the Eastern Panhandle in Martinsburg, WV, emphasize, in the absense of assets, that living wills and advanced directives are useful, even for “invincible” young adults. It’s one of the easiest, and free things that they can do for themselves.
I ran across this article from Wealth Junkie$. Though brief, I thought it was appropo. The following is the rest of the article:
Estate Planning: It’s For Young People, Too
“Estate planning sounds like something that should only concern senior citizens. After all, it’s a system of making sure that your assets wind up in the hands of your beneficiaries as quickly and easily as possible. And who has an estate these days? The word implies plenty of wealth.
But the fact of the matter is that estate planning is just as important to the young and the less-than-wealthy as anyone else. For one thing, estate planning these days can include the documents that state how you want your medical and financial affairs handled if you’re incapacitated. For another thing, estate planning is just as useful as an insurance policy: it gives you a way to make sure that your family is taken care of in a worst case scenario.”
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