Don’t let quagmire of estate planning bog down charitable bequests

An increasingly large percentage of the U.S. population does not have a will or trust. In 1998, 61 percent of people over age 55 created one of these documents. Today, the number of people who plan ahead has dropped to about 51 percent. Why is it so hard to make our estate plans? Having just done this work personally, I can attest to how difficult it was just to get to the point of making that appointment.Even more challenging was then facing the multitude of decisions in the process. Estate pl