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Estate planning is for everyone whether you have $1,000 or $1,000,000. Estate planning is not about how much you have, it’s about how much of what you have means to you and how much you want to protect it.

You should take a look at your documents once per year to make sure that they are still accurate with what your goals and concerns are. It would be a good idea to contact the attorney who did your documents to see if those documents have been updated due to changes in the law or practice, and if yours need to be updated as well. 

Your estate planning attorney should spend a considerable amount of time discussing your needs, wants, concerns, and goals to suggest a plan that works for you and is not a one-size-fits-all plan. The attorney should also have a concrete estate planning process in place that they go over with you which includes not only designing the documents to your specifications but also the ability to fund any trust with you and to maintain the documents through a maintenance program.

YES! Everyone over the age of 18 needs to have at least a will and powers of attorney in place as their parents can no longer act for them should something happen. Also, if you’re young with small children, you want to make sure that your children are taken care of should something happen to you and that you have a specific guardianship provision in your documents so that your child goes to who you wish and not who the court decides.

Probate is a formal court procedure overseen by a Register in Probate, Commissioner, or Judge. A Personal Representative (a/k/a Executor) is appointed to carry out all tasks necessary to collect assets of a decedent, pay final debts, and distribute assets to beneficiaries or heirs.

Generally speaking, if a decedent is domiciled in the state of Wisconsin and/or has more than $50,000 in probate assets located within the state, a probate is necessary. In some circumstances, an abbreviated probate procedure can be used for estates valued at less than $50,000.

Broadly speaking, a "probate asset" is an asset titled to a decedent that does not pass automatically upon the death of a person. Examples of assets that are typically not probate assets include jointly-held bank accounts, accounts that have a "payable-on-death" or "transfer-on-death" designation, and accounts owned by a trust. Non-probate assets transfer automatically to a beneficiary or joint owner upon death.

Both parents are expected to devote a percentage of their income to support the children. Where one parent has a higher earning capacity than the other, support may be appropriate despite a 50/50 placement schedule.

No. A father can sign a voluntary paternity acknowledgment if both parents are sure that the child is his. The acknowledgment must be filed with the state, which establishes legal paternity.

No. In Wisconsin, unmarried mothers have sole custody of their children unless custody is altered by court order.

Placement is based on the “best interests of the child,” which is a statutory standard based on several specified factors, and which can also include any factor, specified in the statute or not, that is relevant to the case. While the time you have devoted to child-raising is relevant, it is only one of many factors that determine the amount of placement each parent receives.