MarketWatch: Edward Silversmith Jr. Quoted in “Aretha Franklin’s handwritten will was deemed legal. What can we learn from her family’s debacle?”

Edward Silversmith Jr. CFP®, CPWA®, an Associate Portfolio Manager at Wealth Enhancement Group was quoted by MarketWatch in “Aretha Franklin’s handwritten will was deemed legal. What can we learn from her family’s debacle?”

“Advisers should be proactively talking about this with clients as a great example of why planning needs to be done in advance. This shouldn’t make people more lax about wills, it should be a wake-up call if they haven’t gone through a formal process ending with a legally documented estate plan,” Silversmith said.

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