MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

The biggest mistake parents make with their estate #probate #planning #money

15 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, Mark Kohler warns that many parents lack a proper estate plan or are uncertain about the status of their home, trusts, deeds, titles, and overall estate documents. He outlines the core objectives of effective estate planning: avoiding probate, preserving the stepped‑up tax basis, maintaining control over assets, safeguarding the family home, protecting children from poor financial decisions, minimizing family conflict, and ensuring the property is transferred exactly as intended. He emphasizes that proper legal planning is the difference between leaving children a well‑structured inheritance and leaving them a tangled mess.

So if you haven't got an estate plan or you're unsure whether your home, trust, deeds, titles, or estate plan is set up properly, this is exactly where good legal planning matters. The goal is simple: avoid probate, preserve stepped-up basis, keep control, protect the home, protect your kids from themselves, reduce conflict, and pass the house the way you actually intended. That's the difference between leaving your kids a home and leaving your kids a mess.