What does it cost your family if you wait?

A simple model of the financial cost, time cost, and emotional cost your family bears if you die today without the planning in place. Toggle the planning checkboxes and watch the number drop in real time.

Your situation

Estate valueRegion cost levelFamily members involvedSpouse, children, parents, siblings who could be involved.

Planning status

I have a current valid willI have a funded living trustMy major accounts have current named beneficiaries

Cost of dying with this plan

Estimated total cost to your family

$112,583

Average states

Probate process$30,000

17 months from death to closure

Family conflict cost$33,000

55 percent risk of dispute. Average dispute costs 12 percent of estate.

Lost investment returns during probate$49,583

Assets sit in probate-frozen accounts earning nothing.

Stress level on your familySevere

Estimated 180+ days where someone in your family is doing nothing but estate work.

Two hours of planning today, plus three to five hours of attorney engagement, can eliminate most of this.

Two hours of planning. Done.

The will builder takes 10 minutes. The advance directive takes 5. The POA takes 5. The beneficiary audit takes 5. Forty minutes of total work prevents the bulk of what you just saw above.

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