It is not a stretch to say that whenever an individual goes through significant life changes, there are likely to be corresponding changes to his or her estate plan. In its most common form, parents and grandparents often contact an estate planning attorney when a new child or grandchild is born. Similarly, an estate plan is often updated after a loved one has passed away. The need for creating or updating an estate plan is quite obvious in these situations. There is, in fact, no shortage of life events that similarly should invoke the idea of contacting an estate planning attorney to see if any changes are required to an individual’s estate plan. What follows is a non-exhaustive list of some of those instances.

Read the full article written by Steven Latterell and published in The Indiana Lawyer.