There’s an awful lot of talk about how you need to prepare for this emergency, that crisis, and the other calamity. One thing a lot of preppers skip over is preparing for their own passing. Which I think it odd, because while those other may be good things to prepare for, death is the one thing you know is going to happen to everybody. You can save your family a lot of heartache and headache if you’ll just take some simple steps right now.

Probate is what happens to everything you own when you die. The court gets control of it all until it can decide who will get what, and how things are going to be distributed. This process can be expensive and it can take a long time. The good news is you can usually avoid probate altogether by preparing your financial estate.

The folks at ScanSafeData recently released a free report that teaches the steps you can take to avoid probate. You can download the report (no signups or anything, just right click ‘save as’) over at www.AvoidingProbate.com.

For some more ideas on estate planning, check out this recent article over at get rich slowly: Estate Planning 101: Preparing for the Possible — and the Inevitable