Timothy Sumer

To request a free zoom video meeting to design your estate plan, click the following link and complete the short questionnaire: This video describes what you can do as part of your overall estate planning strategy to provide appropriately for your spouse. Married couples customarily go through the estate planning process together. Often, providing for one’s spouse is the most important objective of someone, even more so than: providing for children or other beneficiaries, making the estate settlement easy, avoiding disputes, or even avoiding taxes. Those people who put providing for their spouse as most important are often thinking, “I married up and my spouse married down. My spouse has had to put up with my shenanigans for decades, so the least I can do is make sure my spouse is adequately provided for from my estate.” Failing to provide properly for your spouse can create a host of problems for your spouse in the future - court guardianship proceedings when you bec...