Let's talk about the basics of estate planning, and this is the 49th episode of the

Retirement Planning Education Podcast.

Welcome to the Retirement Planning Education Podcast, where you can learn all about

IRAs and Roth IRAs, employer retirement plans, taxes, Social Security, Medicare,

portfolio withdrawal strategies, annuities, estate planning,

and much more. And now here's your host, Andy Panko. Hello, is it estate planning you're looking

for? How was that? That was my best attempt I can muster together to try to pretend I'm Lana Ritchie

singing, hello. Hello,

is it estate planning you're looking for? Well, if it is, you've come to the right spot.

Because here, today's episode of retirement planning education, I'm going to do the best I can

to give a high-level introductory overview to estate planning and what all it entails.

So I should preface this by saying I'm not an attorney,

nor do I play one on a podcast. So take this for what it's worth. Also, a lot of these things I'm

about to mention will be state specific to where you live. And therefore, some of these names might

be slightly different. Some of these documents or things may not exist

or may exist in slightly different forms where you live

or where you retire to or whatever the case may be.

So always, always, always with anything involving estate planning

like we're about to discuss, especially some of these legal documents, you have

to, have to have to talk to a licensed practicing professional who focuses on a state attorney,

who focuses specifically on estate planning, not just some random run-of-the-mill attorney,

but ideally someone who focuses on estate planning and does this for a living, he or she would be

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