Many people make a New Year's resolution to make a will

Many people make a New Year's resolution to make a will and get their estate planning in order. This includes doing a living will, health care surrogate and financial power of attorney.

Attorney Tom Olsen: Chrissy, it is January and as is often in January, a lot of people have a new year's resolution, and that is to finally get their estate planning done. Boy, some of them are parents with young children, some of them are parents with older children who've never had a will, but often in January, they want to sit down with us and talk about getting their will and estate plan in order.

Attorney Chris Merrill: We are happy to do that because we want to be able to help you to, one, make things simple and easy for your family, help you avoid probate, and also especially with young families as you mentioned, it's about making sure that the people that you would want to watch over your young children if something happened, it's your wishes and who you want. Because if you do not put that in writing, it will be up to the court.

Attorney Tom Olsen: We do offer free initial consult to talk about your estate plan. Whether we're going to use a will or whether we're going to use a living trust, we'll help you decide that. The bottom line is we're going to try make things simple, easy and inexpensive for your children when you pass away. If you've got young children then we need to definitely set up a trust for you, so we can dictate that your money stays and trust when they reach age 25.

Then your will can dictate who would be the guardian who'd be the parent to your minor children if both mom and dad passed away. We do offer a free initial consult, so call me attorney Tom Olsen at the Olsen Law Group in Orlando next week. That phone number is 407-423-5561 or you can email us at lawtube.com and we'll get in touch with you about scheduling time for you to come and with your initial free consult to talk about your estate planning. Yes, it's a great new year's resolution to get it done. Let's knock it off, check it off your list. Let's get it done. We want to help you at the Olsen Law Group in Orlando. Call us at 407-423-5561.