What is an estate plan?
Your estate is everything you own — including cars, your home, investments, checking and savings account, and any other assets you may have. The simplest definition of an estate plan is making a plan in advance of who will receive these assets after you die. However, there are multiple components of an estate plan, and multiple people you will appoint to assist you and your family as part of your estate plan. We include these definitions in the articles below: