Planning for Second (or Third) Marriage or Blended Families
If you have vacation property, a family business, or a residence, for example, you may want to consider how a change in marital status affects the entitlement to those assets should you pass away. Whether you are the sole owner of such assets, or have acquired them through marriage, it makes sense to reconsider how your property will be distributed after you’re gone.
Our clients who have already been through a divorce, with or without remarriage, know from experience how emotional and complicated things can get. Wouldn’t you like to save your beneficiaries this kind of stress if you could? We can introduce you to estate planning tools that will protect, control, and transfer your assets and accumulations with due respect to everyone concerned, including your present spouse; children from a current marriage; and children from a former marriage or marriages, and will even attend to the possible remarriage of a surviving spouse.
Widows and widowers who have remarried after a life-long marriage may be unaware that this marriage grants preferential rights to the deceased spouse, not to the decedent’s family. The unintended fallout from this inconstant situation can be prevented with careful asset transfer planning.