Across

2. Person or group receiving property or funds.
4. Document granting authority to act on another's behalf.
9. Process that validates the authenticity of signatures.
10. "Everything left over" in an estate after specific gifts.
13. Court process many estate plans try to avoid.
18. Takes over trust management when the original trustee cannot.
20. Appointed to care for minors or dependents.
21. Document used to manage assets during life and after death.
22. The giving out of assets according to a will or trust.
23. Person appointed to make medical choices.

Down

1. A power of attorney that survives incapacity.
3. Levy on transferred wealth after death.
5. Neutral professional ensuring estate documents are signed and executed correctly.
6. Overall strategy for handling assets and decisions at incapacity or death.
7. Carries out instructions in a will.
8. Assets passed on to heirs.
11. Person who signs and creates a will.
12. Individual or institution managing trust assets.
14. Trust type that can be changed or canceled.
15. Someone legally bound to act in another's best interest.
16. Trust type locked in once signed.
17. Act of transferring assets into a trust.
19. Required observers for many estate planning documents.