{"id":7871,"date":"2018-05-15T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2018-05-15T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T21:18:26","slug":"your-family-does-not-know-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/your-family-does-not-know-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUR FAMILY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WANT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We\u2019ve all been there. It\u2019s something that seems to happen to me quite often. That is I will meet someone new and they will ask me what I do for a living. After I explained that I have been an estate planning attorney for nearly 20 years I will usually get one of two reactions. The first reaction is that the person I have just met will ask me questions about estate planning and tell me that they really need to get it done. The second and usually the most common reaction is that I will have the individual say to me \u201cI really don\u2019t need to get my estate planning done because my family knows what I want and they will take care of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I was young I would try to explain to these individuals that no their family really didn\u2019t know what they wanted. I\u2019ve come to learn though that trying to convince somebody that they need to get their estate planning done is pretty much the same as the dentist telling them they need to floss more often. People hear it, I think they understand it, I think they may even agree with me about it, but they usually don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

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