If you’ve decided to start the New Year off right by engaging in the all-important task of estate planning, you’ve taken a step in the right direction. Not only is this process key to successfully accounting for your assets and making important decisions about what you would want to happen should you pass away or become incapacitated, but it also makes things easier on your family. After all, with an Arizona will, your family has a guide of sorts in which to make decisions about your estate.

And since this is typically a time of major grieving and sadness, making decisions can seem even harder than usual. By creating an Arizona will to give an accounting for what your wishes may have been, your family will have an easier time navigating the grief process. This all starts with a conversation with pertinent family members when you initially start the estate planning process. If you are doing an Arizona will, an Phoenix living will or even an Phoenix living trust, talk with those family members that will be involved in the decision-making process for your estate.

Go over major decisions you’ve made in relation to these documents and give your family members a chance to ask questions or have input on this process. This is particularly important to those family members to whom you’ve asked to be beneficiaries or administrators on your Phoenix will. It’s better for them to get to ask you questions now than be left wondering after you’ve passed on what you might have wanted in a particular area or pertaining to a specific aspect of your will. Moreover, it gives you some control over major decisions; this is specifically the case with an Arizona living will, which puts you in the driver’s seat for your medical decisions before you can no longer make them yourself.

The more involved your family is on the process, at least those immediate adult members, the easier the entire process will be for them to navigate upon your passing. Death and medical emergencies are hard on loved ones and it can cloud judgments and cause them to think much less clearly. If you lay everything out clearly ahead of time, you can make things easier on them and take the decision-making out of their hands. Moreover, you are assured that what you would have wanted will take place with regards to your estate and your assets.

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“by Kandice Linwright”