Family Feuds Around the Holidays and How to Avoid Them

The holidays can be an emotionally-charged time, that in some cases leads to family conflict around the Christmas tree.

Issues like divorce, second marriages, and growing debt can cause disputes over inheritance. The declining health of an aging parent can also divide children over the desired plan of long-term care.

On this Life Happens podcast, we talk about ways to get ahead of the family feuds before they erupt, by using estate and trust planning. Attorneys Lou Pierro and Aaron Connor explain the benefits of pre-nuptial agreements, probate-avoidance and beneficiary-controlled trusts.

Lou and Aaron also use real-life stories to describe how they’ve helped families stay out of court OR represented family members once those disputes end up in litigation.