You love your family. You want to ensure things are as easy as possible for them, if and when something happens to you.

You have the primary responsibility for the well-being and care of your children. If something happens to you, you want to ensure you’ve made the decision about who cares for them, and how.

You want your spouse making decisions for you if you are incapacitated, and you want to make sure your assets go to your spouse when you die, and then to your children after your spouse is gone. Seems simple, right?

If you are in a second (or third or more) marriage, and you have children from a prior marriage, you must engage in estate planning that will keep the people you love out of conflict.

Estate planning is most important when you are not married, but have a life partner. And, if you have children together, well it’s exponentially more important for you to get your estate planning handled right.

You don’t have children, but you do have a spouse, partner, or other loved ones, and you want to ensure things are as easy for them as possible if and when something happens to you.