{"id":52,"date":"2017-05-11T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/project-files.com\/desertbk\/?p=35"},"modified":"2018-11-21T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T01:20:45","slug":"estate-planning-before-you-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Estate Planning before you need it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a home and do not have a trust you are going to make your heirs\/beneficiaries open a probate case when you die.\u00a0 Probate is costly and depending on the value of your estate can cost thousands of dollars and take months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Having a Revocable Trust prepared is a reasonably priced way to avoid the cost and time spent in probate court.\u00a0 With a Revocable Trust you always maintain control over your assets and can change your mind about distribution or even sell the property in the trust whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p>At my law office a Revocable Trust package includes the following documents being prepared, signed and notarized:\u00a0 1) Trust; 2) Declaration of Trust; 3) Certificate of Trust; 4) Power of Attorney; 5) Deed for each piece of real property; 6) Healthcare Directive; 7) HIPAA waiver; 8) Pour-over Will(s); and 9) other miscellaneous funding documents and instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The entire process usually takes less than a week from initial consultation through signing of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the Coachella Valley give me a call to discuss if a Revocable Trust is right for your estate planning needs.\u00a0 I make house calls if you are not in the Indio, Palm Desert, or La Quinta area.\u00a0 Even if you are local I am willing to come to your home to meet with you and execute the documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a home and do not have a trust you are going to make your heirs\/beneficiaries open a probate case when you die.\u00a0 Probate is costly and depending on the value of your estate can cost thousands of dollars and take months to complete. Having a Revocable Trust prepared is a reasonably priced <a href=\"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/?p=52\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Estate Planning before you need it<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desertbk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}