About this Episode

Most people treat their family law situation and their estate plan as separate things. This episode is about what happens when they collide - and why the two need to be built with each other in mind. Danielle sits down with family lawyer Rebecca Parry, who brings close to 30 years of practice to the conversation. They walk through what happens when someone dies partway through a family law matter, and the trickier situation where a couple has separated but nothing has been filed yet - where an estranged spouse can still inherit an estate that was never meant for them, simply because the planning hadn't caught up with the relationship.

In this conversation:

• What happens to a family law property matter when one person dies partway through
• Why an executor “steps into the shoes” of the person who died
• The risk of an estranged spouse inheriting when nothing has been filed yet
• How a financial agreement and a will can be written to mirror each other
• Why it’s better to have these conversations while a relationship is healthy
• Why protecting children raises the stakes further

Guest: Rebecca Parry, Director and Principal Lawyer, Parry Coates Family Law
Host: Danielle Little, Founder and Principal
Running time: 9 minutes, 18 seconds