Learn About Beneficiaries

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  What Is a Contingent Beneficiary?

  How to name beneficiaries and backups so your property and assets go to those you choose

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  What Is a Beneficiary? A Simple Explanation

  Understand how to leave property and assets to those you choose

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  What if You Want to Give Your Children Different Amounts in Your Will?

  Discover when you may want to give your children unequal gifts and how to do it

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  What Happens if a Beneficiary Dies Before You Do?

  How to plan for backup beneficiaries if your primary beneficiary dies before you do

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  Payable on Death Beneficiary for Accounts

  Learn about payable on death bank accounts and how they help avoid probate

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  Nontraditional Families: Who Can Inherit?

  Who inherits property and assets if you don’t have a will

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  What Is an Elective Share?

  How states protect spouses from disinheritance and how to claim a share of your spouse’s estate

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  The Executor’s Checklist: What’s Next?

  Learn all the responsibilities and tasks of an executor to an estate

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  Per Stirpes and Per Capita Distribution Under a Will – What Does it Mean?

  Learn how different distribution systems affect heirs of your estate

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  Last Will and Testament Letter of Instructions

  Understand how a letter of instruction is a helpful addition to your will