Cranbury Library Wills, Probate & Estate Planning

 Cranbury Library
Wills, Probate & Estate Planning 2023
Monday, March 30th 2023 @6:00pm
Open to the Public, Free. You do not need to be a resident.
SPEAKER: Kenneth Vercammen, Esq. Edison, (Author – ABA’s “Wills and Estate Administration book”)
Topics:
1. Administering the Estate/Probate/Surrogate
2. Dangers If You Have No Will or documents invalid
3. Getting your Estate Planning Documents done without going into a law office
4. What goes into a Will
5. Power of Attorneys recommendations
6. Living Will & Advance Directive for Medical Care
7. Avoiding unnecessary expenses and saving your family money
Free to register
Information, Contact:
609-722-6992
klimek@cranburypubliclibrary.org
Can't attend? We can email you materials. Send email to VercammenLaw@Njlaws.com
Free Will Seminars and Speakers Bureau for Groups
SPEAKERS BUREAU
At the request of senior citizen groups, unions, and Middlesex County companies and organizations, the " Speakers Bureau " is a service designed to educate citizens about how laws affect their lives and how the judicial system operates. We have attorneys available to speak to businesspersons, educational, civic and social organizations on a wide range of topics during business hours. If your organization in Central NJ would like to schedule a Will & Estates seminar, call Kenneth Vercammen’s Law Office at 732-572-0500 or email Vercammenlaw@njlaws.com

Don’t put your Will or Power of Attorney in a Safe deposit box

 Don’t put your Will or Power of Attorney in a Safe deposit box

 
    Keep your Will in a safe place, but let someone know where it can be found. Buy a fireproof box and put it under the bed.  We don't recommend a safe deposit box because banks cant be accessed on weekends or evenings. Remember, the banks all closed due to covid in 2020 and people could not access their own documents.

     Husband and wife should have their own wills.  They each should know where both are kept.  Above all, do not keep your will hidden in the back of your desk or another place where it may be lost or thrown away.

     Have a file, stored in a secure and fireproof location, containing all important documents (wills, titles, securities, contracts,  marriage/divorce papers, deeds, pension/profit sharing plans, etc.)

Keeping Your Will Up To Date
    Periodically review your will to keep it up to date. Keeping it current is just as important as making one in the first place.  Changes in your life such as marriage, birth of a child, death, crippling accident, change of witnesses, purchase or sale of property, a change in your financial status - or a change in the estate tax law may make important revisions or a new will advisable.

A will drawn in another state can be valid; however, revision in relation to New Jersey laws may be prudent.  You are free to change it at any time, but do so correctly.

Source http://www.co.cumberland.nj.us/content/22602/23182/23382/23402.aspx#intes