The 25 Documents You Need Before You Die

The 25 Documents You Need Before You Die
1. Marriage license
2. Divorcement license
3. Copies of health-care documents
4. A durable health-care power-of-attorney form
5. An Authorization to Release Protected Healthcare Information form
6. A living will
7. A do-not-resuscitate order
8. Documentation of housing and land ownership, cemetery plots
9. A list of brokerage and escrow mortgage accounts
10. Savings bonds
11. Vehicles
12. Stock certificates
13. Tax returns
14. Any partnership or corporate operating agreements
15. Copies of life-insurance policies
16. Individual retirement accounts
17. 401(k)s for your spouse and children
18. A list of pensions
19. A list of annuities
20. Alist of all accounts
21. Online log-in information
22. Safe-deposit boxes
23. An original will
24. A revocable living trust
25. A letter of instruction
Source:Wall Street Journal