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When many Nashville, Brentwood and Franklin area residents find themselves making decisions concerning retirement and estate planning, the possibility of creating a trust is often one of the options presented to them. However, banks and financial planners—many of whom are located outside of Tennessee—tend to breathlessly hype trusts as “wonderful”, “simple” and “advantageous” as a means to tout their own services, rather than to educate potential clients about the financial decisions that they face.

Almost everyone puts off estate planning for as long as they can. It is an unpleasant subject to think about, and it is not something we ever think could happen to us unexpectedly. Death happens to us all, yet most Tennesseans never take the steps they need to make sure that their life’s work goes where they want.

There are lots of important considerations to make when you start to make plans for after your passing. Estate planning is far more complex than just deciding who gets your money.

Going through a divorce is difficult enough if there are no children involved. If you have children, you need to do everything you can to ensure that the process does not cause lasting harm to them.