Can You Declutter Your Way to One of Life’s Most Challenging Estate Planning Decisions?

There is a reason that, when you first meet with an estate planning lawyer, the conversation focuses on the fun stuff. Do you want to spend the entire year in Florida, or would you prefer to be in Florida only in the winter, while spending the summer in more temperate climes? Do you want to be generous to your children and grandchildren by giving them cash or real estate? Even the questions about death tend to arise in the most fun context that estate planning attorneys can spin. Do you want your epic funeral to conclude with your body coming to rest in your family plot in the cemetery where multiple generations of your family are buried, or do you want your ashes scattered on the Myakka River, the most beautiful place in Florida? There is no fun way to talk about, or think about, aging in place or moving to an assisted living facility. What will you do when you are no longer healthy enough for the lifestyle you enjoy now? Any future you envision is too horrible to think about; it’s easier to fast forward through the part that comes between cooking Thanksgiving for dozens of your relatives and your surviving relatives belting out your favorite song at your funeral. In order to avoid financial catastrophe, though, you must decide well in advance, while you are still healthy, whether you want to age in place in your family home or move to an assisted living facility. Sometimes the best way to make an unpleasant decision like this is to take your mind off of it. When you are ready to talk about the plan you are considering, contact a Dade City estate planning lawyer.

Aging in Place Is Easier Without All the Clutter, and So Is Moving to an Assisted Living Facility

If you are a chronically online senior, then you have probably heard of Swedish death cleaning, where you spend your retirement gradually removing clutter from your house so that, after you die, your family does not have such a daunting task when sorting through your personal possessions. This is probably aspirational clickbait claptrap in the vein of those articles about buying a farmhouse in Italy for pennies and retiring in your 50s or about how, allegedly, no one in France is obese.

There is a good reason that you should declutter on an ongoing basis in your early years of retirement, though. Decluttering is a series of hundreds of small decisions. Do I keep this item, and if yes, where do I put it? All these small decisions invite a contemplative state conducive to seeing the big picture, like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. This could give you the clarity you need about aging in place or moving to assisted living.

Contact a Florida Estate Planning Attorney About Unpleasant Decisions in Estate Planning

An estate planning attorney can help you get through the least fun parts of building your estate plan.  Contact The Law Office of Laurie R. Chane in Dade City, Florida to discuss your case.

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