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A living will sometimes be confused with a last will and testament. Of course, we’re lawyers, we make everything confusing, and we use the term will in multiple documents. A last will and testament says, when I die this is where my assets are going. That is not a living will. A living will is […]

You don’t just need a will or you don’t just need a trust. We need to figure out based off your individual, personal situation what’s the most appropriate avenue for you. For more information about family law or divorce matters in Colorado, contact Miller & Steiert, PC today www.m-s-lawyers.com or 303-798-2525.

If somebody passes away in Colorado without an estate plan, so with no will or no trust, lucky for us, the state of Colorado has a default plan, and that default plan is going to be the same for everybody. When I say lucky for us, I say that sarcastically because it’s not always what […]

The first misconception in Estate planning is that you don’t need an estate plan. For more information about family law or divorce matters in Colorado, contact Miller & Steiert, PC today www.m-s-lawyers.com or 303-798-2525.

The term executor or executrix is not the term we use in Colorado. We hear our clients use that term a lot. The term we use in Colorado is gender neutral, and it’s called a personal representative. That is the exact same thing as an executor or executrix. That’s the individual who’s going to be […]

There’s a new law in Colorado regarding digital assets, and we affectionately refer to the law as RUFADA. That stands for the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. It is a mouthful, but what this act is trying to do is it’s trying to reverse the issues that federal law has presented. Under […]

If you want to get access to social media, the Power of Attorney must specifically state that your agent has the right or ability to get access to that account. The second individual would be a trustee of a trust and third would be a conservator of somebody’s estate. For more information about family law […]

If a loved one has passed away and there is either no planning in place or the planning that is in place does not address digital assets, unfortunately the answer is that there’s not much that we can do. The terms of service in federal law are likely going to control, in which case nobody […]