For almost 20 years, Tom Deans has made estate planning easy to understand and accessible to everyone, regardless of wealth.
With 137 million American and Canadian adults lacking a legal will, he clearly loves a challenge.

Every day, a record $3 billion is inherited—and frankly, it’s not going well. Unprepared families left in confusion are fighting like never before, and litigation lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank. So for two decades, Tom has made it his mission to help families talk, plan, and ultimately put litigation lawyers out of business. They are not happy and rarely buy his books.
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Fortunately, many others do. In fact, the extraordinary success of his family wealth trilogy has made him the best-selling estate-planning author of all time. Much of Tom’s publishing success is owed to his prolific speaking career. His independent thought-leadership content has been delivered to clients of the world’s largest wealth
management, insurance, accounting, and legal firms, and his books have been recommended by The New York Times, Forbes, and The Globe and Mail.

Married for 37 years to his wife Laurie, whom he met in graduate school, Tom lives in a secluded forest in a beautiful river valley. Much to the relief of his two adult children, Tom’s dog Zen the Doberman, will not be inheriting $18 million (watch Tom’s video on Leona Helmsley; you can’t make this stuff up).