Making sure your beneficiary designations are up to date is a crucial part of estate planning. I recently needed to update mine due to divorce, but it also gave me a chance to revisit who was the beneficiary of what assets, and put that in line with my overall estate plan

Your child has turned 18, they’re going to college or trade school, or starting a job. Huzzah! Good job parents. But what about their information, grades, finances now?

Something you may not know about me: I had a not-so-awesome childhood. Well, that’s not all true. Until the age of eight it was pretty idyllic. But in the fourth grade, my parents divorced and it was a doozy. 

My aunt always joked that she didn’t need to get a new man, that she had a dog who farted and snored. When I was little I didn’t get the joke, I do now.