{"id":7896,"date":"2018-07-17T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2018-07-17T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:05:47","slug":"all-you-need-is-a-simple-estate-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/all-you-need-is-a-simple-estate-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"ALL YOU NEED IS A SIMPLE ESTATE PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/lane-v-erickson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney<\/p>\n<p>My goal for each client is to complete their estate plan in the simplest and most efficient way possible. I believe that most people only need a simple plan without any embellishments or add-ons. I know I am more sensitive to recently because I\u2019ve had several clients bring me large binders full of documents to review they received when they worked with other attorneys or financial providers. In reviewing these binders, I\u2019ve found that about 90% of the documents in them are unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>An estate plan should be simple, and should have only what the client wants, and nothing more. At the Racine law office, we have provided Premier Idaho estate planning services for more than 70 years. Our goal is to understand and meet the specific and individual needs each client has. We do not insist that we provide our clients with large binders full of unneeded documents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/all-you-need-is-a-simple-estate-plan\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading ALL YOU NEED IS A SIMPLE ESTATE PLAN\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lane V. Erickson, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney My goal for each client is to complete their estate plan in the simplest and most efficient way possible. I believe that most people only need a simple plan without any embellishments or add-ons. I know I am more sensitive to recently because I\u2019ve had several clients [&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-7896","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>ALL YOU NEED IS A SIMPLE ESTATE PLAN &#8212; Idaho Law Blog &#8212; July 17, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Lane V. 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