Some useful information touching upon the process of planning, the essence of it.

Estate planning is a lifelong process in which you make planning for the future and evaluate your situation.The process includes: planning for your retirement, for the possibility of disability, and for death. The process requires that you consider a wide range of legal, financial, emotional, and logistical issues.

Probate: What Is It?

The probate court serves several functions. The most common is administration of the estates of persons who die, called a probate proceeding. However, the probate court also handles guardianships and conservatorships.
In a probate proceeding, the court oversees the process of identifying the deceased person's property, paying any debts, identifying the proper heirs, and distributing the property to them. Most of the actual work is done by an executor with the assistance of an attorney and often an accountant. Not all of a deceased person's property is subject to the probate process. Life insurance, retirement accounts, and "joint tenancy" property all pass directly to the appropriate beneficiary automatically. More information

Benefits of Probate

Probate does provide some important benefits. Most important, it provides some court supervision to make sure a deceased person's property is accounted for and distributed as intended. Once the probate "creditor's claim period" expires it is very difficult for creditors or others to claim any interest in the estate. For a professional probate may bar later lawsuits that would otherwise be difficult to defend without the help of the deceased person.
It's important to periodically review your records.

Will Your Family Know The Following?

-Location of vital documents
-Location of employment records
-List of real estate owned
-Location of deeds, loan documents
-Payment information for mortgages, taxes, insurance
-Name(s) of person(s) most knowledgeable about property
-List of valuable personal property.
-Information regarding employee disability and survivor benefits
-Information regarding Pension/Retirement Benefits
-List of bank and investment/security accounts
-Children's savings accounts
-Investment accounts

Business

-Location of corporate records, documents, share certificates
-Information relevant to management,employees
-Information relevant to valuation of business
-Names of advisors
-Securities/Investments not held in financial institution
-Partnerships
-Mutual funds
-Shares of stock in publicly-traded companies
-Bonds
-Shares of stock in closely-held companies
-Intangible property
-Burial/Funeral plans, prearrangements
-Motor vehicles
-Stock options
-Safe deposit box; storage lockers; safe
-Insurance Information
-Loans, Promissory Notes
In general the planning process includes several parts.Estate planning is only one of them.The other parts of this process are not discussed here. 		Peter L. Balogh - offers to you information about planning process and probate court

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