National Estate Planning Awareness Week: On the Hardest Day, Your Plan Will Be the Hand They Hold

National Estate Planning Awareness Week falls during the third full week of October. Congress created it in 2008 because so few Americans plan ahead, but any week this month is the right week to act on it. And we want to push the idea one step further: A complete estate plan does more than say who receives what. It tells the people you love exactly what to do on one of the hardest days of their lives.