by Eileen Kerlin Walsh | Nov 6, 2026 | Blog, Common Questions, End-of-Life wishes, Estate Planning, Guardianship, Healthcare Decisions, Inheritance Planning, Kerlin Walsh Law, Life Insurance, News, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts
KEY TAKEAWAYS A direct inheritance can push an adult child on SSI over the $2,000 limit overnight. Equal shares can put a disabled child’s inheritance in their own name, inviting court supervision. Naming your child directly on a beneficiary form means your Special...
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 18, 2026 | Blog, Common Questions, Estate Planning, Kerlin Walsh Law, Living Trusts, Power of Attorney, Probate, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts
Search “estate planning attorney near me” from anywhere in the southwest suburbs, and you will get dozens of results and almost no way to tell them apart. Every website promises experience. Nearly every website looks the same. That sameness is the real...
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....
