LIFE HAPPENS . BE PREPARED . Estate planning in America can feel confusing. This step-by-step workbook makes estate planning less overwhelming for you to develop and more straightforward for your loved ones to carry out. Have you been wanting to create an estate plan but keep putting it off because you don’t know where to begin, and simply thinking about it stresses you out? Are you worried your loved ones will be burdened with tough decisions about your end-of-life care because you haven’t clearly expressed your wishes? Have you created a bunch of legal documents but don’t know what to do with that information or how to share it with your loved ones so that they know what to do with them when the time comes? This workbook is for you. Inside, you will discover: A quick start guide that helps you take action right away by demystifying estate planning and summarizing the estate planning process in 10 easy-to-follow steps, - 40 customizable worksheets that break estate planning down into manageable bite-size chunks, - A comprehensive approach for compiling the exact information that you will need to develop your estate plan and that your loved ones will need to carry it out, - A systematic process to document your final wishes, including your preferences for end-of-life care, organ donation, funerals, and burials or cremations, - A proven method for organizing all of this information in a user-friendly way so that your loved ones know exactly what to do in the days, weeks, and months following your death or incapacitation and can find the information they need when they need it, - Worksheets and writing prompts to help you create personal messages and reflections for your loved ones so you can leave behind an emotional legacy that is as rich as your financial legacy, And much more! Unlike other estate planning workbooks that only include simplistic forms without providing any useful guidance, this workbook explains exactly what information you and your loved ones will need and shows you what to do with it, enabling you to take action to protect yourself and those you care about most. This workbook will help you comprehensively inventory what you own and what you owe, as well as identify which legal documents you already have so you can begin to determine what might be missing. And most importantly, all of your critical information—everything from your finances and health to your legal documents and final wishes—will be organized in one place to ease the burden on your loved ones.