Estate Planning: develop a comprehensive list of your assets
Estate Planning: develop a comprehensive list of your assets By Melinda Gustafson Gervasi May 24, 2021 Frenzied frustration, that is how I describe the adolescent emotions evoked when I played Whack-A-Mole at the Dane County Fair or random arcade. Armed with a black mallet, the goal was to whack moles randomly popping up out of the half-dozen or so holes. You would hit one another another would taunt you from the corner of your eye. It was frenzied. It was frustrating. Yet, I loved that game and the challenges it presented. Today as an estate planning and probate attorney that feeling emerges in each and every probate I assist with. Frenzied because someone has just died and the surviving family and/or friends want to move quickly to "take care" of things. Sometimes a large family is all together for a funeral or memorial service, combining that event with cleaning out the deceased's home. Grief, memories, surprise, and confusion hover o...