Estate Planning When You Have an Addicted Child How to Think About Estate Planning - Last Wills and Testaments, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, and Health Care Documents - As a Way to Protect Your Addicted Loved One.

When you have a child or other loved one who struggles with addiction, proper estate planning can be critically important. Estate planning can resolve issue such as how to give an addict child access to assets without harm, treating the addicted and non-addicted family fairly under your circumstances, placing restrictions in documents to protect assets, and putting the right people in charge should you become incapacitated or in the event of your death.

Addiction issues can make estate planning complicated. Complicated-but not impossible. Kelli E. Brown is a trusts and estates attorney with more than twenty years of experience. With this new thoughtful guide for families who have an addict loved one, she takes you step-by-step through the estate planning process and shows you how to utilize estate planning tools to protect your vulnerable family members.

Brown first leads you through the basics of estate planning and includes information on wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other essential documents. She then discusses how to tailor your estate planning to protect an addicted loved one. Make sure nothing is missed with the included checklists. With Brown's help, you can give yourself peace of mind about the future.