Record Your Wishes, Legally

Store Them for Your Family To Access Later

State-Specific Wills & Living Wills
Optional Living Trust to Avoid Probate
Free Storage in Estate Vault with Emergency Access

Medical Wishes & Life Support

Use our legally-binding Advance Health Directive (AKA Living Will) to estate your wishes for health care, life support and other personal decisions, so your family doesn’t have to make them later.

Free, Secure Access for You & Your Loved Ones

Store your signed legal documents in your secure Estate Vault. The best part is you can grant access to your loved ones, so they can access if you are incapacitated.

Financial Planning & Estate Forms

Want a Power of Attorney so someone else can handle your affairs? Covered. Want to help your children to avoid the costly hassles of probate? Use our Living Trust. Need affidavits, revocation or agreements? Start browsing!

Learning Center: Estate Planning 101

Glossary of Estate Planning Terms, from Probate to Power of Attorney

Legalese, eek! We know it can be daunting, but fear not, we’ll keep it as simple as possible. Here are the commonly misunderstood legal terms common in estate planning, and their plain-English explanations.

Advance Health Directive (AKA Living Will): This document expresses your wishes for health care, in case you become incapacitated later. For example, if you slip into a persistent vegetative state (indefinite coma), do you want to be artificially kept alive on life support? This and other questions are addressed in the advance health directive.

Agent: A person appointed to act on your behalf. Generally this… Read More »

Intestate: How Dying without a Will Creates a Family Legal Nightmare

According to a recent survey, fully half of American adults do not have a will or living trust.

A will explains how you want your property to be distributed after your passing. A living trust contains similar information, and can also help your loved ones avoid probate.

What happens if someone passes and never had a will or living trust? Legally, they have died intestate.

What Does Intestate Mean?
Investopedia defines intestate as “The act of dying without a legal will. Determining the distribution of the deceased's assets then becomes the responsibility of a probate court.”

In… Read More »

How Is a Living Will Different from a Living Trust?

The idea of a “living” will is counterintuitive, isn’t it?

A will, after all, is a document you prepare to determine what will happen with your assets when you’re no longer living. Except that a living will doesn’t really have anything to do with money. And then there’s a living trust. Which is, actually, much more similar to a will. Confused?

If you’re asking what the difference is between the two, the answer is, well, almost everything. What the two documents do have in common, however, is that they are both created and take effect while you are living. They… Read More »

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EZ Estate Planner Planning to Protect the People and Things that Matter Most

Who Is ezEstatePlanner?

A family business in the most literal of senses, we exist for one reason: to make sure that other families are prepared (at least legally and logistically) for when the worst happens.

Our story is simple: when owner Kevin Kiene’s father died, he not only left Kevin with the grief of his loss, but also with a tangled legal mess. It cost several years of probate court, disagreements with surviving family members and a lot of wasted money on legal fees and court fees, turning an already difficult time into a true nightmare.

Dying either intestate (without a will or living trust), or with your legal documents and wishes unknown leaves your family to scramble trying to figure out where your documents are, if they exist at all. Then come attorneys, arguments, an expensive (and often embattled) probate process in court. Not exactly the legacy most of us want to leave behind.

So while there are any number of companies eager to sell you a will or living trust on the web, none of them offer what you need most: help keeping your executed legal documents in one secure place, and helping your loved ones access them when your time comes. After all, what good is a will if no one knows where it is after you die? Or perhaps even worse, what good is a living will (health directive) if you are incapacitated in a car accident, and no one knows where your health wishes are written down?

It’s not enough to create and sign estate planning and health care documents. Your family needs to be able to access them quickly and easily in the event of an emergency, so that they can comply with your wishes, and grieve without having to unravel a tangle of legal questions.

New to estate planning? Start by browsing our Beginner’s Guide to Estate Planning .