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

Why you need both a Will and a Trust #estateplanning #finance #wealth

17 Sept 2026 · 0 min

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Mark Kohler explains why you need both documents: a will appoints guardians for kids and an executor to activate your trust, while the trust controls when and how heirs receive money, letting you set conditions that shape their lives.

Even if you do get a trust, you have to have a will. A will is kind of the bookend of a trust because we want to designate who the guardians might be, who that executor might be, and then that opens the door to the trust. What's nice about the trust, it not only says who gets what, it says when and how. So now we can put on strings, conditions, provisions, and we can really screw up our kids' life after we die as well during our lives.