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Musings and Counsel from London Baker Law — 96 episodes
Uncomfortable Family Conversations about Estate Planning
PROBATE Acronym: A Simple Way to Understand a Complicated Process
Durable Power of Attorney on Ask the Experts, November 2025
Make An Estate Plan to Avoid Probate Because Probate is Expensive
Legal Documents in Hurricane Preparation
Key Surprises that Cause Distress After Someone Passes
What if the person I appointed Power of Attorney dies?
A common misconception: “I always thought I have to have a lot before I plan”
The Most Important Thing to Start Estate Planning
What does an Executor do?
Four Easy Pieces of an Estate Plan
Why do Estate Planning? You never know what’s going to happen.
Counseling is Part of My Job Description
How do I provide for my pets?
How do people choose whom to name?
The Horrible Situations That Come Up
What’s an Estate Plan? Who Needs One?
What Areas of Elder Law Do I Cover?
The Mess You Leave: Why People Avoid Thinking About Wills And Estate Planning
Estate Planning: You never know when your family will need it.
A Simple Thing Like a “Will”
Revocable Living Trusts – Why would somebody have one?
Tangible and Intangible Property in Estate Planning
Why do estate planning now?
Revocable Trusts? Minor Children
You’re Never Too Old to Follow Your Dreams
Planning can be tough Because of Family Relationships and Disinheriting
Revocable Trusts/Living Wills vs Last Wills
My Coaching Experience and How It Helps in My Practice
When is it time to plan?
Estate Planning: Basic Steps to Getting Started
Difficult Planning Questions: Where am I going to live? How am I going to pay for it?
Medicare v Medicaid, What’s the difference?
Don’t Listen to the people Who Say You’re Too Old
Don’t want to plan? Get a Round TUIT
Do it Yourself Wills? And Living Wills
Best Way to Provide for a Minor Child plus Contesting a Will
What is a Last Will and Testament? What does it do?
Trusts or Wills? Which is better?
How My Life Coaching Experience is Helpful
You Never Know When Something Might Happen
Estate Planning for our Pets
What does “estate” mean? Benefits of Trust? How to find me
Do-it-Yourself Documents – Tempting and Risky
Contesting a Will
What does a trustee do? Should I speak to an attorney?
Trust or Will?
Age is No Reason Not To Do Something
Do I still coach? How did I get to be an attorney?
Why would you hire me?
Planning for incapacitation?
How ‘big’ does an estate need to be to need planning?
When is it time to plan?
What I’m About and the Story of the Green Box
Just about everyone has an estate – even if it’s only $500
No will? – That’s BAAAD!
Consequences of Putting Off Estate Planning/Not Keeping It Current
Disinheriting/Disavowing Family Members
What’s Most Important about Estate Planning
What about argument in families when someone dies?
What are the documents that make up an estate plan?
Who needs an Estate Plan?
What’s an Estate Plan and the Challenge of Dying Without a Plan in Place
A Little About Myself
What documents does a person need?
When’s the time to do this?
What if you have documents from another state?
Who REALLY needs an estate plan?
What exactly is Estate Planning
How are those directives established? Living Wills particularly?
Basic Steps for Estate Planning Recap
Medical Directives, Why “wills”, Estate Tax
Guardianship and Health Care Directives for Children
Life Insurance
Storing and Sharing Your Estate Planning Information
Beneficiaries: Who Gets What
We ALL need a plan – Basic Steps
Wills, Contests, and Do-It-Yourself
Key Surprise Areas Without Proper Planning
Medicare and Medicaid – The Differences
Plan in Advance – Think About This ‘stuff
“Never” is Not the Right Time for Estate Planning
What is a living will?
What about Do-It-Yourself Wills? Plus Contesting a Will
Artifacts
Trust or Will with Young Children
What is a Will? What Do you Need? Plus Physical Possessions
It Takes Courage to Get Started
What is an Estate Plan? – Where do You Start?
Don’t Make a Plan – Probate Looms
What Does a Trustee Do?
Need for Planning is Abstract but Real
Components of a Good Estate Plan
Young Families
Who Needs a Plan?
Background and Why I Practice Estate Planning Law