Thank you for this article, Lucretia. It prompted me to pull out our "Must Have Documents" and review them. I found that they were created 15 years ago-when we were living in a different state. I assume that all four of the documents (will, financial power of attorney, advance directive and revocable trust) have to be redone when you move to another state? We moved from CO to ID.
By the way, we did these all from Suze Orman's website. She made this overwhelming task seem doable for the average person.
Mike,
Thank you for this wonderful post! This is also my first post to this forum; your courage gave me courage.
My husband and I chose not to have children when we married. We are now both 60 years old. We can afford to retire now, if we choose to. I'm not sure we would have been able to retire early if we had had children?
I have no regrets about our decision. We are both healthy and happy; our lives feel complete.
Comments
Thank you for this article, Lucretia. It prompted me to pull out our "Must Have Documents" and review them. I found that they were created 15 years ago-when we were living in a different state. I assume that all four of the documents (will, financial power of attorney, advance directive and revocable trust) have to be redone when you move to another state? We moved from CO to ID. By the way, we did these all from Suze Orman's website. She made this overwhelming task seem doable for the average person.
Post: The Financial Stress a Simple Document Could Have Prevented
Link to comment from May 30, 2026
Mike, Thank you for this wonderful post! This is also my first post to this forum; your courage gave me courage. My husband and I chose not to have children when we married. We are now both 60 years old. We can afford to retire now, if we choose to. I'm not sure we would have been able to retire early if we had had children? I have no regrets about our decision. We are both healthy and happy; our lives feel complete.
Post: Financial regrets about parenthood?
Link to comment from April 11, 2026