Estate planning course will be Sept. 30 in New Madrid County

NEW MADRID, Mo. — University of Missouri Extension of New Madrid County is hosting an informational course in estate planning from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 30 at the New Madrid County Extension Office, located at 330 US Highway 61 in New Madrid.

Participants are asked to register in advance by visiting https://extension.missouri.edu/events/estate-planning-whats-the-worst-that-could... or calling (573) 748-6197.

In this course, participants will see a fictional family who has done no estate planning. As life circumstances occur, participants will see the unintended consequences of having done no estate planning. After we learn what all goes wrong, we’ll examine the tools available in an estate plan, and then apply those tools to our fictional family to see how it might have changed their outcome. The purpose of the course is to demonstrate the importance of estate planning in general, but also to give participants more lmowledge about estate planning tools and how they might apply so that they are better prepared when they meet with their own estate planning attorneys. This course will be taught by a licensed attorney with 20 years of experience in probate and estate planning.

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