Had a random thought: I wonder about the person who is a bit of a recluse, doesn’t have much family or many close friends, lives alone, and perhaps lives in a home with significant clutter or hoarding. What happens if they have a will, trust, or other important estate planning documents, but those documents are never found? People sometimes assume there’s some national registry where you can search for someone’s estate-planning documents. There isn’t. Not to mention, most estate documents aren’t filed with the county either. Most states and counties don’t require it or even allow it, although there are a few exceptions. So, yes, you can have a perfectly valid estate plan that essentially becomes a needle in a haystack if no one knows it exists or where to find it. Anyway, that’s my random estate planning thought for the day. Kind of surprised I haven’t actually worked on a case like that. 🙃