How to Money · Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Chanelle Reynolds, author of 'What Matters Most,' emphasizes the critical need for proactive estate planning, even for individuals over 18. She highlights that basic documents like wills, powers of attorney, and advanced care directives are essential and can be established affordably and efficiently, often taking just a couple of hours.
“in my opinion and the opinion of many other financial and attorneys who deal with the state planning, anybody who's eighteen or older should have some basic documents in place, and it doesn't have to be expensive, and it doesn't have to take more than you know, maybe a couple of hours.”
“So it's just an important thing to start working into the speck of your life. The same way we go to the dentist and we you know, replace our furnace filters and we get mammograms. It's just part of the maintenance.”
“So if we kind of take the scary way and just make it maybe like a boring tax I feel like it might be easier for us to do.”