Wills and Living Trusts

Wills and Living Trusts is an online Law course that helps students understand the essential estate planning documents, decisions, and family protection strategies used to organize assets and wishes. This course explains how wills, living trusts, beneficiary tools, fiduciary roles, and incapacity planning work together so students can approach estate planning with greater clarity and confidence.

Build A Practical Estate Plan With Wills And Living Trusts

• Learn the core differences between wills, living trusts, probate, and transfer tools.
• Understand how estate planning decisions affect family protection, privacy, timing, and costs.
• Explore practical strategies for minor children, blended families, beneficiaries, and fiduciary choices.
• Prepare for more productive conversations with attorneys, trustees, executors, and loved ones.

A practical estate planning course for understanding documents, decisions, and family protection strategies, Wills and Living Trusts.

This course introduces the foundations of estate planning in clear, practical language, including what happens when someone dies without a plan and how probate can affect families. Students will study the role of Law in organizing wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, and beneficiary designations.

Through focused lessons on Wills and Living Trusts, students will learn what each document can do, where each has limits, and how tools such as pour-over wills, revocable trusts, transfer-on-death designations, and joint ownership may fit into a broader plan. The course also explains how to fund a living trust and why asset ownership matters.

Students will examine planning issues for real estate, bank accounts, retirement accounts, life insurance, personal property, minor children, young adult beneficiaries, second marriages, and blended families. By the end, students will be better prepared to review their own goals, ask informed questions, organize key documents, and make thoughtful estate planning decisions that support family protection and long-term peace of mind.