Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog

DEAR JONATHAN: I am elderly, not married and have no children. Becoming increasingly aware of my own mortality, I have decided to engage in estate planning for the first time in my life. Interestingly, I am more concerned with those documents whose purpose is to protect me during my lifetime, such as financial and health care durable powers of attorney, than I am with those documents that direct where my estate assets go when I die, such as a will and/or trust.

More specifically, I understand the importance of having financial and health care durable powers of attorney, but I am not the most ...