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Q: My husband and I have real estate and other assets. Some assets are titled in our names as joint tenants, but most just have both of our names on the titles. What should we do for estate planning purposes?
A: You’ve asked for help in a complex area of the law. The complexity arises from the fact that different states recognize different kinds of property titles and those titles sometimes mean different things from state to state.
Correctly titling assets is important for estate planning because the way assets are titled determines how those assets are transferred to heirs when their owner dies. Incidentally, you don't say what state you live in but in most states...