{"id":6176,"date":"2017-02-25T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2017-02-25T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:00:13","slug":"3-reasons-name-successors-estate-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/3-reasons-name-successors-estate-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons to Name Successors in Your Estate Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

There are many times when I am helping my clients complete their estate planning that they bring to me the estate planning documents they created themselves online or through a software program they picked up at the local office supply store. Usually these documents are brought to me with the question of whether they are valid and enforceable in Idaho. Many times they are not. One of the ways that these types of a state plan usually fail is that they do not name successors.<\/p>\n

A successor is a first, second, and third choice of persons that you have named to take care of portions of your estate planning for you when you are no longer able to do them for yourself. Most online and software estate plans do not provide for successors. There are three main reasons that you should name successors in your estate planning to help it be complete.<\/p>\n

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By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney There are many times when I am helping my clients complete their estate planning that they bring to me the estate planning documents they created themselves online or through a software program they picked up at the local office supply store. Usually these documents are brought to me with the […]<\/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-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"yoast_head":"\n3 Reasons to Name Successors in Your Estate Planning|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Lane V. 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