Getting your estate in order also means leaving behind at least basic information for your heirs. Having at least a basic outline of your assets and where they are can make a huge difference. In one case, we stumbled across a bank account in California owned by the deceased person that his heirs had absolutely no record of. So just how much money was in that account? We didn't know until we actually got the check in the mail.
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