Estate Planning Tips to Help Ensure Your Will & Assets Are Found

Estate planning is important, but what happens if no one can find your important documents? All that hard work could be for nothing, leaving your family frustrated and unsure how to deal with sorting out your assets.

It’s important to keep your will in a safe place, where it will be found after your passing. Don’t hide your will under a desk drawer or in a secret compartment. If you do, no one will find it unless they know where to look. Make sure you tell your executor(s) where to find your will when the time comes. 

 

Learn more about estate planning tips to help ensure your will and assets are found here.

 
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If you’re interested in learning more about estate planning, please contact our estate planning attorneys in Ann Arbor at 734-665-4441.

What happens if the original will can’t be found?

Ideally you should have your original will handy. However, a copy can be used when your original can’t be found, but there are additional hurdles to getting a copy admitted to probate. You can also save a digital copy and email a copy to your named executor(s) if you don’t mind them getting an advanced look at your will. If you have privacy concerns, at least tell your executor(s) where he or she can find a copy.

If you can’t find the original will or a copy, you can call the estate planning attorney who prepared it. They may still have a copy on file, but don’t count on it.

 

Learn more about estate planning tips to help ensure your will and assets are found here.

 
Get Started Today: Schedule Your Consultation

 

If you’re interested in learning more about estate planning, please contact our estate planning attorneys in Ann Arbor at 734-665-4441.