Estate Planning

Die without a plan and Oklahoma law will decide who ends up owning your company, not your business partner or the employee who has run the place for fifteen years, but whoever the state’s default rules name as next in line, whether they have ever set foot in your shop or not. Without a Will,…

The day an Oklahoma divorce becomes final, all gifts in your will to your former spouse disappear by operation of law. The beneficiary form on your 401(k) does not change at all. Marriage, divorce, and the birth of a new child all rearrange who will inherit from you. Statutes help clean up some of the…

Most Oklahoma families don’t find out about a problem with their estate plans until it’s too late to fix. A will that wasn’t witnessed correctly, a trust that was never funded, or a beneficiary designation naming an ex-spouse – these are not hypothetical scenarios. These things happen in Oklahoma probate courts every year and cost…