Marriage is more than just the joining of two people; it's also about merging lives and assets. Estate planning might not sound romantic, but it's essential for securing your future together. The Power of Partnership: Marriage involves shared responsibilities, including financial and legal matters. Estate planning helps create a joint financial roadmap, protecting each other's… Continue reading Marriage and Estate Planning: Securing Your Future Together
In Oklahoma, surviving spouses have statutory protections to ensure that they will receive a fair share of their deceased spouse's estate. Listed below are some of the potential protections that may be available to a surviving spouse. To best determine whether a protection applies to you or to ensure that your spouse is well-provided for… Continue reading Rights of Surviving Spouses in Oklahoma
Going through a divorce is an incredibly challenging and emotionally draining experience. Following the upheaval of separating assets and rebuilding your life, it's important to remember to update your estate plan. Estate planning after a divorce is crucial to safeguarding your assets. Following divorce it's important that you revisit your most recent last will and… Continue reading Estate Planning After a Divorce
A common question in estate planning is: “How do I dispose of my ‘stuff?’” While bank accounts can have beneficiaries listed, and items like homes and vehicles can be titled over to a trust, passing on the jewelry, furniture, and antiques around our homes may be less obvious, but does not necessarily need to be… Continue reading “I Know What Will Happen to my Finances, but What Will Happen to my ‘Stuff?’”
Most couples, especially married couples, get their estate planning done together and draft them accordingly. Most of the time, married couples will get a Family Trust, rather than two individual Trusts, and all the beneficiaries/executors/trustees are listed as each other. After the unfortunate event of a divorce, it is extremely important to get your estate… Continue reading It’s Important to Update your Estate Planning After A Divorce
Welcome to Tulsa Estate Planning Blog, created by the offices of the Skillern Law Firm, PLLC in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you've read our profile over there on the right, then you already know a little about us and a little about what we want this blog to be about. Penni Skillern, Esq. has had a… Continue reading Welcome to the Tulsa Estate Planning Blog and the Skillern Law Firm!
