by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Sep 1, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Common Questions, Education, Estate Planning, Inheritance Planning, Kerlin Walsh Law, Life Insurance, News, Wills & Trusts
KEY TAKEAWAYS Life insurance should evolve with your life. The lowest-cost option is not necessarily the right long-term choice. Different policies involve different levels of flexibility, risk, and responsibility. Life insurance can help protect assets you want to...
by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Aug 25, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Estate Planning, Kerlin Walsh Law, Power of Attorney, Real Estate, Referrals, Wills & Trusts
A financial plan can be flawless and still fail the moment a client dies, because a beneficiary designation nobody updated in ten years overrides every instruction written into their Trust. Clients are already asking advisors to close that gap. National research found...
by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Aug 11, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Entrepreneurs, Estate Planning, Healthcare Decisions, Kerlin Walsh Law, Living Trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts, Women and Estate Planning
Most business owners in the southwest suburbs have a plan for growing their company. Far fewer have a plan for what happens to it without them. That hole is not about being unprepared in general. It comes from treating personal planning and business planning as two...
by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Estate Planning, Healthcare Decisions, Kerlin Walsh Law, Living Trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts, Women and Estate Planning
In Illinois, everyone already has an estate plan, whether they wrote one or not. If you die without a Will, the state of Illinois has one waiting for you, and it was not written with your family in mind. That plan is called intestate succession, and it follows a fixed...
by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Estate Planning, Healthcare Decisions, Kerlin Walsh Law, Living Trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts, Women and Estate Planning
A standard Estate Plan does its job well up to a point. Will, Trust, Powers of Attorney, beneficiary designations in order. For many families, that structure holds. For families whose wealth has grown significantly, that structure is often the floor, not the ceiling....
by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Jul 16, 2026 | Blog, Client Relationships, Estate Planning, Healthcare Decisions, Kerlin Walsh Law, Living Trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts, Women and Estate Planning
Most people with a Living Trust assume the Trust does all the work. Set it up, fund it, and everything flows the way you intended. Then life happens. A new bank account opened last year, or a settlement check landed after everything else was in place. Maybe you...
