This life is not guaranteed. You could die tonight in your sleep and never see it coming. This is why it is important that you have a plan for your estate, for all the hard work you have done in your lifetime. By planning your estate, you are preserving your legacy.
Estate planning tools can be presented to you from estate planning firms, a probate law attorney, or a good accountant. If you have a decent attorney already, you may have all the estate planning information right under your nose and not even realize it.
There are even more sophisticated estate planning and trusts that allow you to cover deferring or decreasing state taxes, or the winding up of a business. Estate planning tools take care of all the jargon of a death, so that a mourning family does not have to.
Would you not continue to take care of your family after you die? Estate planning tools allow you to. The dispersing of your state will be executed by someone of your choosing, someone who you know and trust deeply. A will is a legally recognized document, but once it is recognized by the court, you need to make sure that the person in charge of it does it the justice it deserves.
Estate planning tools provide you with the confidence that everything will go according to plan when your soul leaves your body. The last thing you will want your loved ones worrying about when you leave them is a huge legal matter. They will have enough to deal with. Lighten their load.