WHAT GOOD ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS DO

1. A revocable Living Trust avoids a conservatorship of your assets; 

"2. An Advance Health Care Directive avoids a conservatorship of your person; 

3. A Durable Power of Attorney for property management avoids a conservatorship of your assets; 

4. A properly structured revocable Living Trust minimizes estate tax; 

5. A properly structured Living Trust provides for the surviving spouse, while protecting the interests of children from a prior marriage; 

6. All of your estate planning documents should work in concert to minimize capital gains tax and other income taxes paid by the surviving spouse, children or other beneficiaries.