Your wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other documents (including health care directives) should be reviewed and updated every few years – or whenever you experience significant life events like a marriage, divorce, move to another state, birth of a child or grandchild, etc.
The number of unmarried couples is on the rise, and with them a myriad of legal snarls and entanglements. In fact, if you are not married to your partner, but have shared assets or living arrangements, the Wall Street Journal article says you may experience a sort of (un)marriage penalty. According to the Census Bureau, the number of opposite-sex unmarried couples living together in the U.S. jumped some 13% in 2010 from the previous year, to about 7.5 million. The bureau also estimates the number of same-sex couples living together rose roughly 30 percent, to about 620,000 this year from…
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