The ultimate exit strategy: A when-I-die checklist
The first time I checked the organ donor check box on my driver's license, it was with the creepy suspicion that someone far luckier than me needed my liver.
I checked the box and, to my surprise, was not immediately run over by a bread truck. I've renewed my license many times since and lived to see the E-check line again.
Take it from me: Planning for death will not cause you to die.
It may, however, save those you leave behind from having to make decisions when they're really not at their best.
Planning for death may not be as fun as planning a trip to Italy, but if it's any consolation, Linda Betzer, president of a funeral consumer group, the Cleveland Memorial Society, offers this:
"You only have to do it once. It's not like taxes, which you have to do every year."
Think of this as the ultimate honey-do list:
• Don't leave your affairs in chaos. Parents of minor children should have wills that clearly designate a legal guardian. And older people shouldn't delay estate planning until they're too ill to make important decisions.
A clear, legally sound will is essential. Probate Judge Laura Gallagher says do-it-yourself wills can be unclear or impossible to carry out. For example, a person's jointly held assets might transfer outside of probate, leaving no money in the estate to fund bequests in the will. Or the courts may be left to sort out who gets the money if the deceased leaves money to a generic cause, rather than a specific organization.
The judge's advice: Know what you have, know what you want to do with it and sit down with an attorney to make sure your wishes are carried out.
• Play to your heirs' strengths. "Know who you trust," Gallagher cautions. It's one thing to split your possessions equally among your kids, but it's another to give the black sheep joint access to your bank accounts or appoint the child who argues about everything co-executor with his siblings. Choose an executor you trust to honor your wishes, preferably one who has the temperament for document-wrangling.
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That includes contact info for your attorney; your will or trust documents; your living will and power of attorney; health, long-term-care and life insurance policies; instructions for your funeral; and instructions for locating computer and account
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George Zouvelos, the president and principle lobbyist of the New York Professional Bondsmen & Agents, The NYPBA, (http://www.NYPBA.com), a New York State Professional Bail Bondsman and high volume bail bond retailer in New York City announces today that a two year NYPBA investigation exposes clear evidence of alleged civil servant insurance examiner gross misconduct, ethical violations, fraud perpetrated onto the courts, bias interference of certain licensees bail operations, and untrustworthiness. These alleged deplorable acts by certain examiners caused the lawsuit filed in Kings County Supreme Court against the New York Department of Insurance (NY DOI), Senior Examiner Anna Lembersky and Examiner Juan Pena in their official capacities and as private citizens. See Docket # 13933 / 2011 filed on June 17, 2011 in Brooklyn New York.
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