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Your Prenup Promises Protection. But Will It Actually Deliver?

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, died in 2025. One year later, his widow alleges $1.2 million in unfulfilled premarital obligations: a life insurance policy never purchased, a Roth IRA never funded, and anniversary payments never made. A nine-year-old daughter is at the center of the dispute. Here’s what more thorough follow-through on the planning could have helped prevent.

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Make-A-Will Month Is Here. But a Will Isn’t a Plan.

August is Make-A-Will Month, and if you’ve been meaning to get your affairs in order, this is your reminder. But before you assume that getting a will means your family is protected, there’s something most people don’t know about what a will actually does and doesn’t do.

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Go Without an Estate Plan

You’ve heard the phrase: “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” The same logic applies to estate planning. According to Caring.com, only 24 percent of Americans have a will. For some of the people you love most, you may be the only person in their life who will ever bring this up. Here’s how to do it without making it weird, and what to tell them about what real planning looks like.

August is National Make a Will Month, which means this is exactly the right time.

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