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If you intend to leave your children equal shares of your estate, don’t forget to consider any money or property held jointly with a child. If you have recently added a child to a bank account, own property jointly with one of your children, or have set up a payable-on-death account with a child as the beneficiary, you might want to revise your will, or at least reconsider how the asset is titled.

Read more: Be careful with joint property and ‘payable on death’ accounts

Prenuptial agreements used to be only for celebrities, but in the last five years they have become dramatically more common in the U.S., and now it’s quite ordinary for middle-class couples to ask for them.

There’s no one single reason for the change. Rather, a number of factors are working together to make prenups more acceptable - including:

Read more: Prenups: No longer just for the rich and famous

Attorney Christopher B. Slusser, founder of the Slusser Law Firm in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, said prospective personal injury clients can be assured of receiving a phone call from a lawyer within one hour, no matter what time of day they need help.

Read more: Slusser Law Firm offers one-hour call back for personal injury clients