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By Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Attorney<\/p>\n

I’ve been an attorney now for several decades and have heard many of my clients who are young ask this very question. Many of us, myself included when I was young, believed that since we were young and healthy, that it really wasn’t necessary for us to complete our estate planning. However, the truth is just the opposite. Estate planning is much more than deciding who to give your property away to after you die. In fact, estate planning has much more to do with your life while you are alive, than it does with what happens to your property after you die.<\/p>\n

Taking capacity and disability as an example. According to current morbidity tables, the chances of a young and healthy person becoming incapacitated or disabled in the next year is significantly greater than the chance of them dying. So even the young and healthy need to have an estate plan in place where they determine what’s going to happen to them if they suddenly become disabled or incapacitated.<\/p>\n

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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney I’ve been an attorney now for several decades and have heard many of my clients who are young ask this very question. Many of us, myself included when I was young, believed that since we were young and healthy, that it really wasn’t necessary for us to complete our estate […]<\/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-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"yoast_head":"\nIf I am Young and Healthy, Do I Need to Complete an Estate Plan|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So if you are young and healthy, and would like to know more about completing your estate plan, we can help. 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