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- 0:00And you know that funky music. Time. Now, if you've got a
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- 0:52six soh eight three two one thirteen ten. CJ. Maleia, How you
- 0:56doing this morning, CJ. How's your day so far? It's been good
- 0:59so far, are Shawn. It's supposed to be like seventy five and sunny
- 1:02today, so gosh. I hope to get outside around lunchtime. I hope
- 1:04so. By the way, and uh, and Malia, how are you
- 1:07doing this morning? I'm doing good, staying dry. I'm gonna I was
- 1:11going to ask CJ this question, but I think this is probably one for
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- 1:49class financial dot com. We've got just an important show. We're going to
- 1:53talk of state planning, which is folks, stay that's not me. Trust
- 1:59me. You're going to want to pay a ten because it applies to a
- 2:00lot of folks. We'll get to that in just a moment. To One
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- 2:15again, little tip if you listen closely oftentimes with the question and answer to
- 2:19the class quiz question we come up during the program, and before we start
- 2:23talking about a state planning, let's actually take a look back at our previous
- 2:27show and get the Class Quiz question of the week question and answer as well.
- 2:30Malia. Yeah, So last week we had a great conversation about social
- 2:35security, because that's a buzzword when people are getting close to retirement. And
- 2:39the question actually was, according to Social Security, if you were born after
- 2:44the year nineteen sixty, what does Social Security consider your full retirement age otherwise
- 2:51known as FRA to be Is this age sixty five or age sixty seven.
- 2:55So we had a lot of listeners, a lot of callers in for the
- 2:59prize, but only one can win, and that was Lisa of Madison.
- 3:02She correctly answered age sixty seven is the year considered your full retirement age if
- 3:09you were born after the year nineteen sixty. So listen back to last week's
- 3:14show if you missed it, and thanks for listening for today's question, and
- 3:16you two can be like Lisa congratulations there. Of course, talking this morning
- 3:20with Malia Quavis and CJ. Closs of Colass Financial mentioned that website class Financial
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- 3:27podcasts right at classfinancial dot com and they're telephone number six. So eight four
- 3:30four two five six three seven, no charge for theinacial gets to know you
- 3:35appointment at Class Financially. It will be complementary to you. So today we're
- 3:38going to be tackling the topic of estate planning. I think a lot of
- 3:43folks wonder, you know, why is this so important and especially something you
- 3:46help clients with financial and retirement planning. Let's talk about how this applyes CJ.
- 3:52Yeah, So people who have listened to our show for a while have
- 3:54heard us talk about this before. But we believe that as a financial planner,
- 4:00we should be acting like the quarterback of our client's financial team and perhaps
- 4:04fix some areas where your defense line may be weak. So we like this
- 4:09analogy of quarterback and football teams. But we've also for those who have listened,
- 4:13we've also used this concept of like your primary care physician. Right,
- 4:16we're not the expert in everything. We're not the narrow deep surgeon who's going
- 4:21to do brain surgery when things go wrong, but we would be the primary
- 4:26care coordinator. So thinking of that analogy of the quarterback or the primary care
- 4:30coordinator, are looking, we're asking questions often when we meet with people around
- 4:35their insurance, they're estate planning their taxes, their investments, their mortgages there,
- 4:42I mean, everything that pertains to your financial life, and then we're
- 4:46looking where things are weak. So today we're focusing on the estate planning component
- 4:50part. And this is where sometimes planning comes into play, things like wills,
- 4:56trust, powers of attorney because many people have perhaps thought about it or
- 5:00maybe even started it, but have yet to complete it. We run into
- 5:04it all the time. Now, a quick disclaimer, we are not estate
- 5:09planning attorneys. We're not going to draft your estate planning documents. We don't
- 5:12have anybody on staff who's a JD who can do this. However, we
- 5:16do work with fabulous estate planning attorneys in the area, and so if you
- 5:23need a referral, we can refer you or we work with whoever your estate
- 5:27planning attorney is. So it doesn't matter if you work with with our favorites
- 5:30or not. The key is just that you have a good estate planning attorney
- 5:33and that you work with them. Now. One thing we learn as financial
- 5:38planners is to expect the unexpected, So now is an ideal time for all
- 5:43of us to review a just or finally complete and put into place what we
- 5:46would call basic estate planning documents, which could include, as I mentioned before,
- 5:51wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. And
- 5:58these documents are to ensure that all your data is up to date, accurately
- 6:01reflects your wishes, and that they're flexible enough to take into consideration potential changes
- 6:08in tax law or in your family structure in the future. We believe that
- 6:13you should consistently review your financial and estate plans because as life changes, you
- 6:18want to be able to adjust your goals and your portfolio to make sure they're
- 6:23working together. There are many benefits of partnering with an advisor quarterback as we
- 6:28call it, who can focus on your entire financial plan and perhaps fix some
- 6:31areas where your defense line may be weak. This is where sometimes estate planning
- 6:35can come into play. As many people, as we just mentioned before,
- 6:40they've started this, but they haven't completed it. Now, according to a
- 6:44survey as of March of twenty twenty four, so this is recent. This
- 6:46is from the Financial Advisor magazine, only about twenty six percent of American adults
- 6:51have established estate plans. Now. That percentage does rise to fifty percent for
- 6:57those with assets greater than five hundred thousand. But interestingly enough, while thirty
- 7:01two percent of men living men say they have estate plans, only twenty three
- 7:06percent of women say they do. That's surprising. It is, it really
- 7:11is. And I will add to this. You've heard us throw around different
- 7:14numbers as it relates to this topic. You've heard us talk about about fifty
- 7:17percent of people die without a will. So just so you know, there's
- 7:20different ways to measure this, and the one we're talking about today is a
- 7:25recent study from Financial Advisor magazine, but it's just a survey now of people
- 7:30who actually die. We find that a little more than I think it's around
- 7:33fifty five to sixty percent of people die without any written estate plans. And
- 7:39what we would say to you all is don't be one of those people talking
- 7:43this morning with CJ. Closs and Malia Quavis. They are our retirement planning
- 7:46professionals from Class Financial. Great time right now. If you've got a question,
- 7:49we'd love to hear from you. All I got to do is dial
- 7:51in six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two
- 7:55one thirteen ten. We'll get you on the air with CJN Malia. Don't
- 7:58forget. You can learn more about Class Financial well on their website Classfinancial dot
- 8:01com. That's colss k l aas Financial dot com and they're telephone number six
- 8:05O eight four four two five six three seven and CG. I was looking
- 8:09at looking at a graph the other day kind of showing where when it comes
- 8:13to kind of a breakdown of the different generations where the wealth is and we
- 8:18are, it looks like very top heavy, and it looks like things maybe
- 8:22kind of there's going to be obviously some some movement. There isn't there there
- 8:28is so a lot of people don't realize this, But the Baby Boomers are
- 8:31are an incredible generation. Well, we work with a lot of them,
- 8:37so I'm I'm somewhat partial or biased here. I think they're amazing. But
- 8:41the Baby Boomers built a lot of wealth. Now there's reasons for this.
- 8:45I mean, some of it is just the moment in history they were in
- 8:48what happened in the United States. They're hard work ethic. All these things
- 8:52come together right. Many of them are children of the Great Depression, and
- 8:54so they grew up with a very hard working mindset. But regardless of the
- 9:00why, the largest wave of wealth in the history of the United States is
- 9:05beginning to pass from Baby Boomers, and it will happen over the next twenty
- 9:09or so years. And the number, by the way, is about eighty
- 9:13four trillion dollars is poised to move from older Baby Boomer Americans to Gen X
- 9:18and millennials. Now, whether or not Americans prepare for this wealth transfer will
- 9:26decide how much money goes to lawyers and courts and how much we'll go to
- 9:28family and friends. If an individual has no estate plans anywhere from three to
- 9:35eight percent of the estate could be lost to unnecessary probate costs and legal fees.
- 9:39Now, I want to be cautious with this. I'm not saying that
- 9:43if you don't have an estate plan that everything's going to the state or to
- 9:46the government. That's a misnomer. That's not true. Probate is actually the
- 9:50state court ordered process to settle your estate. There's nothing necessarily evil about probate.
- 9:58But if you have no pla it's harder by definition, right Sean.
- 10:03If you pass and your spouse passes and there's no plans, all kinds of
- 10:07questions have to be asked. Sure, where does the minor child go?
- 10:11What happens to all the stuff? Does it go to the child? Does
- 10:15it go to other family member? Who's going to be the guardian, who's
- 10:16going to be the financial representative? And it just slows everything down, makes
- 10:20it more expensive. So for those of you baby boomers listening to me today,
- 10:24because I know there's a lot of baby boomers who listen to this radio
- 10:28station, make sure that you have basic plans in place, and a lot
- 10:33of you have this misnomer. Milia will talk about this in a little bit
- 10:37where it's like, well, but I don't have an estate. Yes you
- 10:39do. If you have money in a checking and savings agout, you have
- 10:43an estate. Just pay the little bit of money to a lawyer to get
- 10:46a basic estate plan in place, and then when you pass, it'll make
- 10:50life much easier for children and grandchildren. Talking this morning with CJ. Closs
- 10:52and Malia Quavis. They are our retirement plant professionals from class Financial online,
- 10:58the website class financial dot com that's k l a A S Financial dot com
- 11:03and their telephone number six so eight four four two five six three seven.
- 11:07So, Malia, what are some of the reasons then when we see folks
- 11:09that are that are going through life without a will? And how important are
- 11:13power of attorney documents when it comes to a state planning. So there's a
- 11:18lot of great reasons. I don't know if they're great, but the reasons
- 11:22why people put this off and so we look at multiple studies and the main
- 11:26reasons really starting with number one, which everyone can guess is thinking about death
- 11:31makes people uncomfortable, flat out and yet, to be honest, it's the
- 11:37most natural thing. This is the one thing we we you know, everything
- 11:41else on our show every single week we say it depends, it depends,
- 11:46it depends. There's no depending here. It's going to happen. And what
- 11:50we want to make sure is when it does happen, those those decisions have
- 11:54hopefully been pre written down, whether you know, in a state plan and
- 12:01so forth, that things transfer as you would like them to transfer. So
- 12:05it's not an if it's a win, I gonna happen. Okay, there,
- 12:11there we go. He's gotta be a heckling. The next thing is
- 12:15procrastination. They just people just simply don't get around to it. Why because
- 12:20it makes them uncomfortable or they think, well, if I make a plan
- 12:22today, then something's going to happen. And I just want the listeners to
- 12:26know there's no perfect people here on the radio station. Everything is not perfect
- 12:31in our own lives. I say this, you know, to be humble
- 12:35that you know, I did some additional estate planning four months ago and I
- 12:41personally have not signed the final document yet. Okay, so I'm not perfect
- 12:46here. None of us are a point being. Okay, I'll get around
- 12:48to it. But we're working with clients. We got to get their stuff
- 12:52done right. Like the plumber with the leaky pipes. Right. My husband
- 12:54asked me this morning, did we ever finish that? I'm like, no,
- 12:58it's on my last right. So finishing off this is just as important
- 13:03as starting it, So please do that. Many people think they don't have
- 13:07enough assets. Well, if you're listening to our show, you probably seej
- 13:09mentioned have a bank account. You have something that is an asset, could
- 13:16be your real estate, could be you know, items that you have sitting
- 13:20in other real estate situations in another state. Even some people have cabins.
- 13:26Maybe you have some investments left behind from a relative that you just left sitting
- 13:31in an account. Most people have something, and that's where we want to
- 13:33make sure that any asset you have has a way in which to transfer.
- 13:39People say, I don't know how to make a will or a living trust.
- 13:43Well, there are things you can do online. We're not necessarily the
- 13:46biggest fans of that, but that's where you need to direct yourself toward a
- 13:50financial planner that can direct you to perhaps an estate planner. We like to
- 13:56make sure things are completed and signed and be done. And many people say
- 14:01it, well, it's just too expensive. I just don't want to go
- 14:03that direction. This, of course can depend on what you actually need.
- 14:07We are the first people to say every single person out there does not necessarily
- 14:11need a trust. You may simply need a will with instructions and making sure
- 14:16your be beneficiaries are intact. That may be enough for you, but please
- 14:22please please listen to us today, make an effort to get this completed.
- 14:26And then finally, estate planning is not just about wills and trusts. So
- 14:31wills and trusts direct how your assets, your instructions should be carried out after
- 14:35your death. But equally important is having that proper power of attorney document in
- 14:39place while you're alive. So essentially, power of attorney documents allow the person
- 14:46to decide in advance whom they can trust, who could act on their behalf
- 14:52if they no longer can make good decisions for themselves. So that would be
- 14:56for both health care and property. Of course, property we refer to the
- 15:01financial aspect of That is so so important because I'll be honest, the cognitive
- 15:09difficulties we start seeing with clients they range in age that it is not necessarily
- 15:16you know, you're ninety years old and you're starting to decline. We're seeing
- 15:18at all ages. So just having that person sitting in that position to act
- 15:24while you're still living in the event you cannot make good decisions for yourself is
- 15:30so important. And then finally remember that the difference between being a beneficiary that
- 15:35only happens once you have passed away power of attorney documents for medical and for
- 15:43property, those happen while you're still living and you can't make good decisions for
- 15:48yourself. So make sure all these documents are signed, sealed, delivered.
- 15:52And I'm going to finish up today and do mine. I've got a note
- 15:56next week to ask about. It's Malia Quavis and CJ. Coss. They
- 16:00are also our financial planning professionals from Class Financial the website Class financial dot com.
- 16:07That's Class k l a as financial dot com. Great website. There
- 16:11their telephone number six oh eight four four two five six three seven no charge.
- 16:15Then as you'll get to know your appointment Tech Coss Financial, it will
- 16:18be complementary to you. So does everyone need a will? We'll get the
- 16:21details on that and so much more as Money in Motion with Class Financial continues
- 16:25right here on thirteen ten wib A talking with CJ. Class and Malia Quavis.
- 16:32They are our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial the website class financial dot
- 16:36com. That's k l a A S Financial dot Com telephone number six O
- 16:40eight four four two five six three seven talking this week about estate planning,
- 16:45and of course the question often comes up is does everyone need a will?
- 16:48And what about probate? Probate doesn't sound friendly, what exactly is that?
- 16:53And CJ, you're the man to answer these questions. Yeah, So usually
- 17:00when people hear of a state planning, they think of one of two things.
- 17:03They think estate planning is only for people with a lot of wealth because
- 17:07they think that word a state sounds very large, right, come to my
- 17:10humble estate or and that's, by the way, that's a misnomer. And
- 17:15then number two is they think of estate planning as only about wills and trust.
- 17:18Both of those are not true statements. So Malia just talked a moment
- 17:22ago. You know, estate planning at its core includes powers of attorney,
- 17:26which hopefully you understand if you're an adult, you really need power of attorney.
- 17:33Power attorney is I'm naming an agent to act on my behalf in the
- 17:37event that I am incapable of acting on my own right. Because you go
- 17:41in for surgery and the doctor needs to give you anesthesia or you don't come
- 17:45out right and they've got to do a new surgery. They want somebody besides
- 17:48themselves approving these decisions because it's risky for them if you don't know this.
- 17:55Doctors have a lot of risk and they want to offload that risk to somebody
- 17:57else. So anyway, going too deep into the weeds. Point is,
- 18:02state planning is not just about wills and trust It includes medical and financial powers
- 18:06of attorney, as Malia talked about. But today we want to shed some
- 18:08light on the topic and go a little bit deeper as it relates to specifically
- 18:14wills and trusts. So almost everyone, upon their death has likely accumulated some
- 18:18assets, whether it's investments, real estate, or other real property. It's
- 18:25important that upon your death you leave detailed instructions as to how you wish those
- 18:30remaining assets be distributed and to whom. Those instructions ideally will be specified either
- 18:36in a will or a trust or a combination thereof. Hence, estate planning
- 18:41is for everyone who owns or possesses things of value. Now, things of
- 18:47value don't have to be dollars and cents. They can actually be other human
- 18:51beings that they are responsible for. Think minor children or parents living with you
- 18:56who are no longer able to take care of themselves. And remember, if
- 19:00you don't have instructions, the good news is the state that you live in
- 19:04does. The bad news is it won't say what you want it to.
- 19:08So dying without a will or a trust or any estate plans is known as
- 19:12dying intestate. I ntes tate, that is intestate, and it means that
- 19:18you've died without directions. Hence the state will dictate how your property will be
- 19:23divided and distributed, which, as I said, may not be along the
- 19:27lines of what you want. Boy boys, Americans, we hate that word
- 19:32dictate, don't we, So don't have it be dictated to you now.
- 19:34Granted you won't be around to know, but don't have it be dictated to
- 19:38your children and grandchildren or whoever else is going to benefit. So we want
- 19:42to dig in. What are some of the basic differences between trusts and wills.
- 19:47First things first, both are good. Both are useful estate planning devices
- 19:51that will serve different purposes, and both can work together to create a complete
- 19:55estate plan. A will goes into effect only after you die. While a
- 20:00trust takes effect as soon as you create it, it directs who will receive
- 20:03your property at your death, and it appoints a legal representative to carry out
- 20:07your wishes. A trust can be used to begin distributing property before death,
- 20:14at death, or afterwards. A trust is a legal arrangement through which one
- 20:18person or an institution such as a banker law firm called a trustee, holds
- 20:22legal title to property for another person called a beneficiary, and trust can help
- 20:27you avoid probate. This is one of the most common reasons that we will
- 20:32see people established trusts over will is. Probate is the kind of state sponsored
- 20:38legal orderly process to settle your state. There's nothing wrong with probate, but
- 20:42it can be costly and take some more time, and it's a public process
- 20:47instead of a private process. And especially if you have properties in multiple states,
- 20:52you typically want to try to avoid having probate opened up in multiple states.
- 20:56And so many people just say, you know, my estate has gotten
- 20:57large enough or I just don't want the complexity or the issue, and then
- 21:02they establish a trust. And by the way, for those of you who
- 21:04are listening right now, feel free to call in because I'll bet some of
- 21:07you have gone through this process and it is only at that moment that you
- 21:11say, now I get it, right now, I get why I want
- 21:15to avoid this again. Is proba bad? No? No, it's not
- 21:21bad at all. But is it timely? Are there court filing fees?
- 21:25Are there like times that the estate has to be open for creditors that they
- 21:29claim? Yes? And so if you can avoid those things, often people
- 21:33with larger estates will choose to do so. Talking this port with CJ cost
- 21:37and Moleia quaevis our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial. They're twelve number six
- 21:41eight four four two five six three seven in the website Class financial dot com.
- 21:45That's Class klaas Financial dot com and CJ. What about beneficiary designations?
- 21:51That an important nuance there, isn't there? Yeah? So, Benett it
- 21:55is. I tell people the reality is you will end up whether you have
- 21:59a will based a state plan or a trust based a state plan, you
- 22:03will end up with two core estate plans. One is what do your beneficiary
- 22:10designation say? The other is what does your will and or trust say?
- 22:15People think that by creating a will or a trust that it just like it's
- 22:19like an umbrella that covers all of their assets. That's actually not true.
- 22:26The the trust or the will will govern assets that don't already have governance assigned
- 22:33to them. So think of this as I have a four oh one K.
- 22:36Let's say and I die. My four oh one K has beneficiary designations,
- 22:40and let's just say, hypothetically, my beneficiary designation says, give it
- 22:44to my son. This is hypothetical, and actually that's that's a bad example.
- 22:48Let me say, Ira, I have an IRA that says give the
- 22:52money to my son, and then my trust says, give my money equally
- 22:56to my children. Well, my IIRA is going to my son. It
- 23:02doesn't matter that my trust says give it equally to my children, because that
- 23:06asset is already has its own designation, which is the beneficiary designation. So
- 23:12here's the idea. Most good estate plans will not only say hey, here's
- 23:18what happens to the stuff that doesn't have directions on it. Think home checking
- 23:22account, savings account, rental, property, furniture, jewelry, all that
- 23:26stuff, but they will also then give you something called funding instructions with that
- 23:30trust. And that funding instruction is a list of things you need to retitle
- 23:36and beneficiary designations you need to rename. Because a good lawyer understands what I
- 23:41am saying to you. They understand that if we don't modify your beneficiary designations
- 23:47to coordinate with what we have in the estate plan, then we could come
- 23:52up with something that doesn't work out the way that you want it to.
- 23:55Now, that doesn't mean that your beneficiary designations should be the same as you
- 24:00trust, because you might want those retirement accounts to go to your charities as
- 24:04an example, because charities don't pay taxes, by the way. But the
- 24:08idea is that it needs to be a plan that works in unison, that
- 24:14it's like an orchestra that is all playing its part. So I'm getting too
- 24:18deep into the weeds. I'm kind of nerding out here. Long story short,
- 24:22you want to meet with a good estate planning attorney. Understand the difference
- 24:26between a will that goes through probate, which can be an expensive kind of
- 24:30time time oriented process, having a trust, which can be more expensive on
- 24:34the front end but possibly a little easier on the back end. Which of
- 24:37those two do you prefer? Get some power of attorney documents in place and
- 24:41then absolutely make sure that you are reviewing those beneficiary designations. They are super
- 24:48powerful, really important information this morning. Remember back in the day, Ron
- 24:51Popeel with the showtime or Tissory used to say set it and forget it.
- 24:55That's not the case with this stuff. We'll talk about Ron Popeel right on
- 24:59many things. That advice when it comes to estate planning not the best.
- 25:03We're going to get the details from Malia and CJ. Next. As of
- 25:06course, as Money in Motion with Claus Financial continues right here on thirteen ten,
- 25:10WIBA talking with CJ. Closs and Malia Quavis of Class Financial, the
- 25:15website class financial dot com teleph number six so eight four four two five six
- 25:21three seven. So we've got all this stuff in place, Malia, do
- 25:23we then just kind of leave it that way? Or I'm going to guess
- 25:26you probably should be updating things, shouldn't you. Yeah, So again,
- 25:30after my confession this morning, you know, I realized that ten plus years
- 25:36had passed since I had updated my own estate plans. And you know what,
- 25:40my kids no longer need guardians and a lot has changed. So this
- 25:44is why life happens. Sometimes we have remarriages, Sometimes kids grow up.
- 25:48Sometimes kids are estranged from their family and beneficiaries need to be adjusted, and
- 25:55that is why we really would suggest, you know, blowing the dust out
- 26:00off these documents every few years, or when you know you've had a big
- 26:03life's change, you've had your first grandchild or whatever that might be. Again,
- 26:08some people think it's going to be extra expensive just to make some changes.
- 26:12Generally, you go back to the same attorney you previously did your documents
- 26:17with. They make a few adjustments, and yes they're going to send you
- 26:19a bill, but we would recommend that you get that done, completed,
- 26:23and then again a few years later look at it again. We want you
- 26:27to review. And this is what's interesting is as we age, we tend
- 26:32to forget kind of like, well, I think I was leaving a percentage
- 26:36to my church. I think I was leaving X amount of dollars for my
- 26:40grandkids, and really looking at those details is important. So you know,
- 26:45there's births, deaths, divorce, all of these things could in fact alter
- 26:52what you want to have happen. We do see on occasion people not changing
- 26:56the beneficiaries across the board. So they've been really good, good about their
- 27:00investments and estate plans there. But when it comes to for example, old
- 27:06life insurance policies, sometimes there's names of previous spouses on those and when that
- 27:12happens, people are not always in the mood of sharing. So we really
- 27:18want to make sure it's from A to Z that everything is tight. Everything
- 27:22you think is out there has the right beneficiary listed. And please reach out
- 27:26to your your financial advisor to help you make sure everything is in accordance.
- 27:32And secondly, of course with the estate planning attorney. Really important conversations and
- 27:37of course it's a day it is like today that you want to start those
- 27:40conversations. All I got to just pick up phone, gimme call at Class
- 27:41Financial telephon number six so eight four four two five six three seven no charge
- 27:45for the initial gets to know your appointment at Class Financial. It will be
- 27:48complimentary to you. Chirels. Want to hold onto that telephone number now because
- 27:52it's time for the class quiz question the week. It works like this,
- 27:55In just a moment, I'll ask you the class quiz question the week.
- 27:56You will then have thirty minutes for today's program to call Class Financial office right
- 28:00here in Madison at six oh eight four four two five, six three seven.
- 28:04If you are the first call correct answer, win this week's prize,
- 28:07which is a twenty five dollars gift card two Starbucks. This week's Closs Quiz
- 28:12question the week is this on average, what percentage of Americans have completed their
- 28:18estate plans? Is it twenty six percent or seventy five percent? Teleph number
- 28:23six oh eight four four two five six three seven. First call with correct
- 28:26answer with the twenty five dollars gift card to Starbucks. You don't forget as
- 28:30well. That's Class Financials office right here in Madison. That number six oh
- 28:33eight four four two five six three seven. CJ. Mollia. I think
- 28:37today it would be a good day to maybe take the afternoon off, but
- 28:41I'm not the boss. So guys, you guys, enjoy it. Thank
- 28:44you. News comes your way next year. Thirty ten Wiba