Trusts & Estate Planning: How Will My Agents & Executor Find Documents If Something Happens?

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Alison Arden Besunder
212-695-8100, ext. 289
abesunder@goetzfitz.com

How Will My Agents & Executor Find My Documents If Something Happens to Me?

It is recommended that you inform your nominated agents and successor agents of the roles you have nominated them for.

We also provide our clients with “document locator” cards to give to your nominated fiduciaries. There is a place on the document locator card for you to fill in the location of your important documents (i.e., “bottom right hand drawer of my desk,” etc.). It also has a line for the name and contact information of your health care agent.

You can put the card in your wallet so that your agent can be contacted in an emergency where you might not be able to communicate.
The document locator card also contains the firm’s name and number, so that they can be reached by the agent and can transmit copies of documents where authorized by the client and when necessary.


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Alison Arden Besunder

Alison Arden Besunder

Alison Arden Besunder, Esq. is Chair of the Trusts & Estates Planning and Fiduciary Litigation group at Goetz Platzer. She has extensive experience and focuses her practice in the areas of Trusts & Estate Planning, Guardianship, Estate Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Elder Law, and Business Succession Planning.

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