Estate Planning Tips for Blended Families

Written By Jammie Taire

Divorce and remarriage is increasingly common. Typically called blended families, when someone remarries their new family often consists of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships and marriages.

  • Over 50% of first marriages end in divorce

  • Over 60% of second families have children

  • 43% of divorced adults remarry

  • 16% of children live in blended families

Blended families can be complicated and face many challenges - new relationships and rules, changed holidays and traditions. When a parent dies and their family includes ex-spouses, adult or minor children from 1st and 2nd marriages, stepchildren

Jammie Taire
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