A safe deposit box (aka safety deposit box) is a great place to store valuable and/or important things, right? Well, it depends (and yeah, it's totally fine to insert a groan here for this classic lawyer non-response).

You're asking for a friend, right? Don't worry, I won't tell. Read on to learn the basics.

Starting a conversation with your loved ones (whether it be your parents, your partner, your siblings, your children, or others) about estate planning can feel overwhelming for many reasons. Here are five tips to help you begin.

Getting your estate plan documents written is (more than) half the battle. But, before you shove those freshly signed, witnessed, and notarized documents in a drawer somewhere and forget about them (and by the way, don't do that!) - please be sure you aren't making one of these seven deadly estate planning mistakes - they are all totally avoidable!