{"id":1308,"date":"2013-07-28T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2013-07-28T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T23:12:37","slug":"debating-gandolfinis-will-an-estate-planning-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/debating-gandolfinis-will-an-estate-planning-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating Gandolfini&#8217;s Will &#8211; An Estate Planning Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after American actor James Gandolfini died last month, his will became public, and with that, a debate ensued about his estate planning (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>In an interview that is the basis for much of a recent article in the New York Times, Mr. Gandolfini&#8217;s attorney defends the structure of the star&#8217;s estate planning. \u00a0However, one thing that the attorney could have prevented was the very public analysis and scrutiny of the will itself. \u00a0Had Mr. Gandolfini had a simple, inexpensive revocable living trust with a &#8220;pour-over&#8221; will, all of his possessions would have been transferred to the trust on his death. \u00a0No one would know anything about his assets or his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire article in the July 19, 2013 edition of the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/20\/your-money\/estate-planning\/the-intrigue-surrounding-gandolfinis-will.html?pagewanted=1&amp;nl=your-money&amp;emc=edit_my_20130722&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after American actor James Gandolfini died last month, his will became public, and with that, a debate ensued about his estate planning (or lack thereof). In an interview that is the basis for much of a recent article in the New York Times, Mr. Gandolfini&#8217;s attorney defends the structure of the star&#8217;s estate planning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,11],"tags":[59,107,132],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springwaterwealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}