Should you name your living trust as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy? Is it better to name specific individuals ...

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy signed their wills in June 2005, and a legal expert tells PEOPLE contesting a decades-old ...

Kelsey Simasko — attorney at Simasko Law in Mount Clements, Michigan — explained that you can use a living trust to help ...

A legal expert disclosed that Gene Hackman did not revise his will before his sudden death, which may result in unnecessary ...

To get the ball rolling, meet with an attorney specializing in estate planning. To create a living trust, you’ll need to choose a trustee, typically a person or professional you trust that you ...

A 2005 copy of Gene Hackman's will does not indicate where the assets in his trusts will go.

To help me understand this more, I spoke with Donna Stefans, an elder law and estate planning attorney. Here are the types of trusts she recommended I consider. 1. A revocable living trust The ...

A revocable living trust is an instrument created for the purpose of protecting your assets during your lifetime. It also creates an avenue to pass your assets with ease after your death.

living or testamentary, funded or unfunded, revocable or irrevocable. Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin A trustor creates a trust with the help of an attorney. The trustor's assets are transferred ...