{"id":2151,"date":"2020-12-30T04:34:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sudlatnid.com\/wp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2020-12-30T04:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:36:20","slug":"financial-steps-to-take-when-a-spouse-dies-los-angeles-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Financial steps to take when a spouse dies &#8211; Los Angeles Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2d85ab4\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2000x1327+0+0\/resize\/840x557!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2F8f%2F79a9d2d063cc651814f14431801d%2Fla-sci-sn-partner-death-heartache-20160405-001\" alt=\"After a spouse dies, the financial checklist is long.\" width=\"310\" height=\"206\" \/> Dear Liz: <\/b>What financial steps need to be taken right after your spouse dies?<\/p>\n<p><b>Answer:<\/b> Your attorney or accountant may have detailed checklists to guide you through the many tasks involved. In general, though, you\u2019ll be settling the estate, notifying appropriate parties, signing up for any benefits and shutting down potential identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-12-29\/spouse-dies-financial-checklist?utm_medium=40digest.7days3.20201229.rank&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=campaign\">Financial steps to take when a spouse dies &#8211; Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Liz: What financial steps need to be taken right after your spouse dies? Answer: Your attorney or accountant may have detailed checklists to guide you through the many tasks involved. In general, though, you\u2019ll&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/?p=2151\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sudlatnid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}