The Guardian Nobody Nominated: What Texas Single Parents Get Wrong About Their Estate Plans
Rachel Thompson had done what most single parents never get around to: she had a will, named a guardian for her daughters, and bought $520,000 in life insurance. When she died unexpectedly, the will worked exactly as written. Her daughters received a court-supervised guardianship for their money — and then a lump sum at eighteen — because nobody had told her that naming a guardian and protecting an inheritance are two entirely different things.
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