“When you go see the lawyer, that’s when you’re gonna die!”
I hear that a lot.
I’m a probate lawyer. I do wills, plan for death and disability and clean up what’s left when people die. If my job has taught me anything over the past forty years, it’s that life’s a sucker bet: Something’s trying to kill you, every stinking minute of every single day.
Yet the majority of Americans don’t do any planning. 1,300,000 Americans, with enough money to care, die each year without wills.
It doesn't have to be that way...
About the Author
David Baker is an attorney, licensed in New York and Illinois. He's worked at the same large law firm for forty-one years, where he started and is the long-time head of the country’s largest practice group that focuses on contested estate, trust and guardianship cases. He also started and then ran the firm’s Pro Bono program for many years and has been writing and speaking for decades on the topics related to his practice.
