A Wedding in Italy and a Funeral in the Same Month

A wedding in Italy in the spring. A funeral this weekend. Same family. He was fifty three and healthier than most of us. He went out on his bike on a Saturday morning and never came home. Now there's a fundraising page for the funeral, and everyone assumes that means the family has no money. They have money. What they don't have is access to it. Everything titled in his name alone is frozen the second he dies, and it stays frozen until a court opens a file. That takes weeks at best. A funeral home wants to be paid in three days. That gap is what a trust and a named successor trustee actually solve. Not a fight over an inheritance twenty years from now. The Tuesday after. He trained for the mountain. Nobody planned for the Tuesday after. Send this to the one in your family who keeps saying they'll get to it. #estateplanning #arizona #trustsandestates #successortrustee #familyplanning #peaceofmind #legacyplanning #azlife