Estate Planning Attorney

Protect Your Possessions With Estate Planning

You live in an apartment filled with electronics and sporting equipment. You have a home, cars, and young children to support. You have adult children from a first marriage and a second marriage.

These are just some of the scenarios that need estate planning from OWL Legal Services P.L.C. An estate is what you own at the time of your death. Estate planning sets forth in legal documents the way you want that property to be distributed after you die.

Every Responsible Adult Needs an Estate Plan

It doesn’t matter whether you are still attending college or getting ready to retire. You may be living paycheck-to-paycheck, independently wealthy, living a single life, or celebrating a milestone wedding anniversary.

You need an estate plan if you:

• Own property
• Are married
• Are divorced
• Are widowed
• Have minor children
• Have no living dependents
• Have children from multiple marriages

To put it simply, every adult needs an estate plan.

Distribute Your Property According to Your Wishes

Dying intestate means dying without a will. If you have not established where you want your assets to go, Michigan intestate law makes that decision for you. Through the rules of succession established by intestate law, your property is divided based on whether you have living parents, dependents (children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren), and a spouse.

If you have no dependents or living parents, your spouse inherits 100% of your intestate property. If you have living parents or dependents, your assets will be divided between your spouse, parents, and dependents.

If you have no spouse, children or parents, your property will be divided between your surviving brothers and sisters.

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