If YOU or your PARENTS have a RETIREMENT account, (or any investment accounts for that matter) NOW is the TIME to get CONNECTED to how those ACCOUNTS are INVESTED. While you may have OUTSOURCED all of this to a BROKER in the PAST, YOU can NO longer AFFORD to ALLOW your INVESTMENTS to be made WITHOUT your clear UNDERSTANDING of exactly WHAT you are INVESTING in, HOW and whether YOUR investments ALIGN with your PLANS for the FUTURE.

Do your PARENTS have an estate PLAN? Is it up to DATE? No matter how RICH or POOR you or your parents are, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, YOU need to be ASKING these and several other QUESTIONS. When your parents become INCAPACITATED or DIE, their AFFAIRS will become your RESPONSIBILITY , and it will be IMPOSSIBLE to ASK them to CLARIFY anything. So, if you do not know whether or not they have estate planning in place that will help you best support them, read on.