
Prepare For When Your Special Needs Child Turns 18
Turning 18 is a major milestone – especially for children with disabilities – because it triggers critical changes in legal rights and parental responsibilities.

Turning 18 is a major milestone – especially for children with disabilities – because it triggers critical changes in legal rights and parental responsibilities.

Make sure that you have a will and up-to-date beneficiary designations on all of your bank accounts, life-insurance policies and brokerage accounts.

Planning ahead for funeral expenses can relieve your loved ones of financial stress and ensure that your final wishes are honored.

Being an executor of an estate isn’t easy, so you should do what you can to help them out.

Testamentary trusts can offer control and protection for your heirs. However, they require court involvement and may not suit every estate plan.

Though often confused, estate administration and trust administration involve distinct processes for managing and distributing assets after death, with different rules, responsibilities and timelines.

Survivor benefits can be complex, even if you don’t think you have a complicated financial situation.

Many people assume a will controls all assets after death—but beneficiary designations often override it entirely.

A premarital agreement offers older couples a thoughtful way to protect assets, clarify financial expectations and strengthen trust before saying ‘I do.’

Siblings often play a long-term role in the care of a family member with special needs—early inclusion in estate planning builds confidence, clarity and family unity.