Inbox Question | Typical Costs of Estate Planning
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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David asks for a general idea of what estate planning services typically cost, following up on the six-part podcast series.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show. |
| 0:07.6 | Today, we're going to the inbox to answer questions sent in by you, our listeners. |
| 0:12.3 | Now, if you'd like to send us a question, just head over to big pictureretirement.com and click the Ask a Question tab in the top menu. |
| 0:18.9 | Oh, and just a quick reminder. |
| 0:19.9 | On this podcast, we provide |
| 0:22.0 | general information and not specific tax, legal, or financial advice. But if you're ever ready |
| 0:28.3 | to move from the broad education we provide here to personalized advice that's specific to you, |
| 0:34.7 | you can find links to our websites down in the description. Now let's jump in |
| 0:39.1 | to today's question. John, today's question comes from David. And David's wanting to know |
| 0:50.0 | something about the cost of services. Yes. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.8 | This was not a planned question. |
| 0:58.5 | We didn't put this in here so we can advertise your services. |
| 1:04.6 | But we did this series on the Perfect Estate Plan, where we talked, I think, for six episodes about all the different estate planning components. |
| 1:07.6 | It's been one of our most downloaded episode series that we've ever had. And people |
| 1:13.6 | have gone back and listened to it over and over. You can look at unique listens and then you can |
| 1:18.2 | look at total listens. And you could tell that people are, there's people listening. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah, they're re-listening to it. Yep. And so in there, we talked about powers of attorney. We talked about wills and |
| 1:29.3 | trust, long-term care and asset protection, all of this different stuff. And so David says, |
| 1:33.6 | is there a way to give us potential estate planners an idea of the typical cost of these |
| 1:38.7 | services mentioned in your six podcast series? And I'm assuming, John, that he's talking about your specific cost, |
| 1:47.8 | but it probably wouldn't hurt to touch on what these services may cost out in the wild as well. |
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