This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Trusts & Estates

Jun. 25, 2010

Bad Things That Happen to Good People Without an Estate Plan

What are the worst consequences for failing to engage in proper estate planning? Howard Klein of Feinberg MIndel Brandt & Klein takes you inside the "parade of horribles."

By Howard S. Klein

The most frustrating aspect of my practice as an estate planner is the unhappy consequences of inaction by those clients who have procrastinated about planning their estates and/or have neglected to execute appropriate protective instruments like advance health care directives and living trusts. Those consequences often are that the clients either died intestate or have become subjects of court-supervised conservatorships administered b...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up