• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Ask Liz Weston

Get smart with your money

  • About
  • Newsletter
  • Liz’s Books
  • Speaking
  • Disclosure
  • Contact

You can do your own estate plan, but should you?

February 6, 2018 By Liz Weston

Estate planning mistakes can be expensive to fix — that is, when they can be fixed at all.

That’s the thought that haunts New York attorney Mari Galvin whether she’s creating an estate plan for a client or confronting the aftermath when people didn’t properly plan.

“People think, ‘Oh, I have a simple life,’ but you have to understand (that if) you make a mistake and you have unintended results, you can’t bring the person back to sign a new will,” says Galvin, a partner at Cassin & Cassin law firm.

In my latest for the Associated Press, why trying to save money by doing your own estate planning can cost big bucks down the line.

Related Posts

  • Q&A: Why your estate plan might need a do-over

    Dear Liz: We had a living trust done in 2006. The lawyer recently died and his…

  • Q&A: DIY estate planning is unwise

    Dear Liz: Please tell us about some estate planning tools that many might be able…

  • 6 estate planning tips even broke people need to take

    No one really wants to sit around thinking about what will happen if they get…

  • How to choose the right health plan

    When we’re given a choice about our health care plans, we often choose badly. In…

Get smarter about your money

Subscribe to my free weekly newsletter for more answers to readers' money questions.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: Estate Planning, mistakes

Primary Sidebar

Search

Copyright © 2026 · Ask Liz Weston 2.0 On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in