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The Death Readiness Podcast: Not your dad’s estate planning podcast — 98 episodes
What to Expect When Hiring an Estate Planning Attorney
What Divorced Parents Need to Know About Life Insurance
Why Your Responsible Child Might Be the Wrong Trustee
Why Your Pour-Over Will Won’t Avoid Probate
Why Turning 18 Changes Everything in a Medical Crisis
Why Reading the Will Looks Nothing Like in the Movies
Why You Shouldn't Add Your Child to Your Deed or Bank Account
Why Your Original Will Matters More Than You Think
How to Overcome Estate Planning Jargon and Overwhelm
How to Avoid Costly Mistakes After a Death
Why I Won't Leave My Kids Cash
What You Need to Know Before Editing Your Will
Why Your Power of Attorney Can't Do Everything
What You Need to Know About Corporate Trustees
How Creditors Can Delay a Probate Estate
What You Need to Know About Estate Planning at 30
How to Prepare for Retirement Without Panic
How Do You Know If Mom Can Still Sign
How to Update Estate Planning After a Dementia Diagnosis
How to Take Your Estate Plan Off Script
Why your life insurance trust might not work
How Living Wills and Last Wills Get Confused All the Time
How assets get lost after death and what to do
Why saying yes to serving as agent under a POA can backfire
What You Can and Can’t Do with the Trust You Inherited
Why That Retirement Account May Not Go Where You Think
Why Giving Money Can Do More Harm Than Good
Why Estate Plans Fail Adult Children
Why Good Powers of Attorney Still Fail
How to Give Without Jeopardizing Government Benefits
Why Small Acts of Care Matter More Than You Think
Why You Should Beware of Tax Advice Via Social Media
How to be Fair to Your Children in Your Estate Plan
Why Knowing Your Rights Isn't Enough
How Geography Can Wreck Your Estate Plan
How to Avoid Mistakes with Debt After Death
What You Need to Know When Justice Feels Out of Reach
Why Selling the Lake House Can Rewrite Your Will
How Business Interests Create Estate Planning Blind Spots
How Poor Estate Planning Cost a First Lady Her Home
Why You Should Question the Estate Planning Expert
Why Disinheritance Can Be the Riskiest Estate Plan
How to Build a Legacy That’s Not About Money
Why that holiday “thank you” might be taxable
Why Housing Security Gets Overlooked in Blended Families
How a Poet Helped Me Face What I Feared
How to write your own Will (and why you shouldn’t)
How to Keep Your Ex Out of Your Estate Plan
Why Your Teen’s Brain Can’t Outrun the Algorithm
How to Stop the Family Camp from Splitting Siblings
How to Give Money Without Triggering Gift Tax
Can you Inherit from Someone You Killed (or Tried to Kill)?
Avoiding the Hidden Tax Trap in Lifetime Gifts
How Hosting This Podcast Taught Me to Face Grief
How to Talk to Your Parents About Getting Help at Home
Why Losing Your Original Will Could Cost Your Family Everything
Can You Leave Money to Your Dog?
Why Jane Goodall’s Lessons Matter More Than Ever
Why you need (or don’t need) a Will
Why You Don’t Have to Take the Executor Job
When Deeds Promise to Avoid Probate but Create Chaos
Why Your Old Will Might Leave Out Your New Baby
How Small Gaps in Your Will Become Big Problems
Why Your Aging Parents Aren’t Planning and How to Change It
6 Steps to Finding the Right Estate Planning Attorney for Your Situation
Why Medical Aid in Dying and Assisted Suicide are not the same thing
Why an Innocent Woman Spent 27 Years in Prison
Why Your Business Needs an Estate Plan, Too
How to Protect Your Aging Parents and Avoid Probate Court
What Really Happens with DIY Wills and other Lessons from the Bench
Why Banks Reject Powers of Attorney for Trust Accounts
Why Naming the Caregiver Adult Child (instead of your Spouse with Dementia) as Beneficiary of your IRA Can Backfire
How One Boy Survived Auschwitz and Found His Dog
What Happens When a Pregnant Woman Is Declared Brain Dead?
What Every Parent Needs to Know When Their Child Turns 18
Why Prenups Aren't Just for the Rich (or the Divorcing)
What You Need to Know About Medicaid and Protecting Your Mom’s House
Why You Need (or Don't Need) a Trust
What to Do with a Dead Body, Who’s in Charge, and Who Pays
How Powers of Attorney Work, When to Use Them, and When It’s Too Late to Get One
How to Prevent your Estate Plan from Becoming a Family Battlefield
How our favorite movies trained us to accept less
How to Succeed in the Caregiving Role No One Trained You For
What You Need to Know About Embalming, Cremation, and Eco-Friendly Funerals
Why Talking About Your Parent's Death Can’t Wait
Start Your Own Family Podcast with these Simple Steps
How to Start the Senior Care Conversation
How to Choose the Right Special Needs Estate Planning Team
A Parents’ Guide to Special Needs Estate Planning
What it Takes to Raise a Child with Special Needs
What to Know Before Choosing an Executor or Agreeing to Serve as One
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About the Estate Tax
How to Talk to Your Parents about Death
What Probate Really Means and How to Avoid It
How to Organize and Preserve Your Legacy
The Real Cost of Dying Without an Estate Plan
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