{"id":4871,"date":"2016-07-11T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2016-07-11T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:41:11","slug":"avoiding-conflicts-estate-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/avoiding-conflicts-estate-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Conflicts in Your Estate Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">Recently I represented individuals in a family that became disgruntle with their sibling who was named as the personal representative of their parents\u2019 Wills. The individuals believed that the personal representative was mismanaging the estate. The parties decided to litigate the matter and ended up spending more money on their attorneys than what they were fighting about in the first place.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">These conflicts may have been avoided with proper planning. When preparing your estate plan, there are certain things that you can do to help reduce the chance of conflicts among the beneficiaries named in your Will, most often your children. The following is a list of things you can do to try and eliminate potential conflicts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Communication. Communicating your intention with your beneficiaries while you are alive can be difficult and may result in some minor conflicts, but in the long run can prevent unnecessary litigation after your death. It is important that you inform your beneficiaries of the existence of a Will, and that you let them know each and every time you change or modify the Will.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/avoiding-conflicts-estate-plan\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Avoiding Conflicts in Your Estate Plan\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I represented individuals in a family that became disgruntle with their sibling who was named as the personal representative of their parents\u2019 Wills. The individuals believed that the personal representative was mismanaging the estate. The parties decided to litigate the matter and ended up spending more money on their attorneys than what they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avoiding Conflicts in Your Estate Plan|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you have questions about how to reduce potential conflicts between your heirs, contact our estate planning team at 208.232.6101\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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