Ashlea Ebeling
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2,002 appearances
38 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2022
last heard Feb 2025
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One family I talked to, the wife, she and her sister were getting a big inheritance from their father.
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And he said, oh, I really want this down my bloodline.
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So she had to talk to her husband and say, well, we have this nice blended family, but I want to make sure that all this money from my father's construction business is going to my kids, not your kids.
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And she put in a separate trust to ensure that.
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Usually just having it really written out is super important.
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Just thinking, oh, I'm going to trust you to do it doesn't cut it.
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Two other big areas are medical decisions and funeral arrangements.
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So those are the key for everybody.
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But
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especially for blended families, because spouses typically are the ones that by law get to make medical decisions or arrange funerals, and that can cause huge rifts if children have different ideas than the surviving parent.
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I've talked to some of the online will fintechs, and they say we're not able to
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deal with complex family situations, and then they'll send people out and really understand that you need a lawyer.
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It has to be an estate lawyer who specializes in estate law and has to be someone in your state because the state laws are also different.
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And then you might need a family lawyer.
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And a lot of these cases, when they're older and they have children from prior marriages with considerable assets, they'll do prenups and then postnups.
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And that really spells it out.
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It guarantees what your separate assets are.
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So there's not questions once it comes time to divvy that up.
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The biggest thing is this misconception that you have a right to an inheritance, because for adult children, there is no right to an inheritance.
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So lawyers I talked to said they'll often get calls from adult children who are shocked to discover they're passed over and the parent's new spouse or partner gets everything.
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