When certain situations arise in your own life, or in the lives of your family members and other beneficiaries, you and your financial adviser can review your estate plan to pre-emptively protect your ...

Learn what happens without an estate plan and what to do to protect your loved ones and everything you've worked for.

In an ideal world, you would draft your will and it would speak for itself. Your heirs would accept your wishes and honor your memory. Morey Stettner is a personal-finance columnist for ...

"If there's even a 1% chance of having your will contested, that can result in a nasty, yearslong conflict involving your children," said James Mulhern, an estate planning attorney at Mulhern ...