Ep55 – Probate Without the Panic: The Steps Families Wish They’d Known

Yeah, so I thought it might be sensible for us to talk about another very often asked about and discussed topic around this table when people come to visit me here, which is probate.

And by that, I mean generally the things that you might have to do if you've lost somebody close to you and it's your responsibility to put their affairs in order, basically.

Obviously, a lot of what I do for people here at Johnson & Boone is... is help them during their lifetime to plan for what should happen when their time comes.

But I do also spend a lot of time helping people who've just recently gone through a bereavement and handling those practicalities, you know.

So a lot of the same issues come up, which obviously are very familiar to me, but it's always new information.

I was just going to

say, yours is quite an interesting area because it's something people, we all know we're going to die.

Yeah.

But nobody ever really wants to face up to the realities of that.

This is true, I think.

And so, like, the wills and the probate sort of side of things, which is such an important aspect of people and what happens to their things.

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And their lives.

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No one ever wants to really go near that.

No.

And so there's either an ignorance to it that's deliberate.

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Or there is an ignorance because you're only going to die once.

Quite often, you're only going to have people who you love die once.

Yeah, the shit.

So they're not common issues you come across.

no this is true and so a lot of the times people coming to you not actually knowing the situation that they find themselves in or what to do does that make sense

it does make sense yeah absolutely you know i think yes a good proportion of us during our lifetimes will turn our attention to the theoretical possibility that we won't be here forever Particularly if we've got children, we've got assets, we've got responsibilities.