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Musings and Counsel from London Baker Law — 96 episodes

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Uncomfortable Family Conversations about Estate Planning

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PROBATE Acronym: A Simple Way to Understand a Complicated Process

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Durable Power of Attorney on Ask the Experts, November 2025

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Make An Estate Plan to Avoid Probate Because Probate is Expensive

5

Legal Documents in Hurricane Preparation

6

Key Surprises that Cause Distress After Someone Passes

7

What if the person I appointed Power of Attorney dies?

8

A common misconception: “I always thought I have to have a lot before I plan”

9

The Most Important Thing to Start Estate Planning

10

What does an Executor do?

11

Four Easy Pieces of an Estate Plan

12

Why do Estate Planning? You never know what’s going to happen.

13

Counseling is Part of My Job Description

14

How do I provide for my pets?

15

How do people choose whom to name?

16

The Horrible Situations That Come Up

17

What’s an Estate Plan? Who Needs One?

18

What Areas of Elder Law Do I Cover?

19

The Mess You Leave: Why People Avoid Thinking About Wills And Estate Planning

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Estate Planning: You never know when your family will need it.

21

A Simple Thing Like a “Will”

22

Revocable Living Trusts – Why would somebody have one?

23

Tangible and Intangible Property in Estate Planning

24

Why do estate planning now?

25

Revocable Trusts? Minor Children

26

You’re Never Too Old to Follow Your Dreams

27

Planning can be tough Because of Family Relationships and Disinheriting

28

Revocable Trusts/Living Wills vs Last Wills

29

My Coaching Experience and How It Helps in My Practice

30

When is it time to plan?

31

Estate Planning: Basic Steps to Getting Started

32

Difficult Planning Questions: Where am I going to live? How am I going to pay for it?

33

Medicare v Medicaid, What’s the difference?

34

Don’t Listen to the people Who Say You’re Too Old

35

Don’t want to plan? Get a Round TUIT

36

Do it Yourself Wills? And Living Wills

37

Best Way to Provide for a Minor Child plus Contesting a Will

38

What is a Last Will and Testament? What does it do?

39

Trusts or Wills? Which is better?

40

How My Life Coaching Experience is Helpful

41

You Never Know When Something Might Happen

42

Estate Planning for our Pets

43

What does “estate” mean? Benefits of Trust? How to find me

44

Do-it-Yourself Documents – Tempting and Risky

45

Contesting a Will

46

What does a trustee do? Should I speak to an attorney?

47

Trust or Will?

48

Age is No Reason Not To Do Something

49

Do I still coach? How did I get to be an attorney?

50

Why would you hire me?

51

Planning for incapacitation?

52

How ‘big’ does an estate need to be to need planning?

53

When is it time to plan?

54

What I’m About and the Story of the Green Box

55

Just about everyone has an estate – even if it’s only $500

56

No will? – That’s BAAAD!

57

Consequences of Putting Off Estate Planning/Not Keeping It Current

58

Disinheriting/Disavowing Family Members

59

What’s Most Important about Estate Planning

60

What about argument in families when someone dies?

61

What are the documents that make up an estate plan?

62

Who needs an Estate Plan?

63

What’s an Estate Plan and the Challenge of Dying Without a Plan in Place

64

A Little About Myself

65

What documents does a person need?

66

When’s the time to do this?

67

What if you have documents from another state?

68

Who REALLY needs an estate plan?

69

What exactly is Estate Planning

70

How are those directives established? Living Wills particularly?

71

Basic Steps for Estate Planning Recap

72

Medical Directives, Why “wills”, Estate Tax

73

Guardianship and Health Care Directives for Children

74

Life Insurance

75

Storing and Sharing Your Estate Planning Information

76

Beneficiaries: Who Gets What

77

We ALL need a plan – Basic Steps

78

Wills, Contests, and Do-It-Yourself

79

Key Surprise Areas Without Proper Planning

80

Medicare and Medicaid – The Differences

81

Plan in Advance – Think About This ‘stuff

82

“Never” is Not the Right Time for Estate Planning

83

What is a living will?

84

What about Do-It-Yourself Wills? Plus Contesting a Will

85

Artifacts

86

Trust or Will with Young Children

87

What is a Will? What Do you Need? Plus Physical Possessions

88

It Takes Courage to Get Started

89

What is an Estate Plan? – Where do You Start?

90

Don’t Make a Plan – Probate Looms

91

What Does a Trustee Do?

92

Need for Planning is Abstract but Real

93

Components of a Good Estate Plan

94

Young Families

95

Who Needs a Plan?

96

Background and Why I Practice Estate Planning Law