Coronavirus Legal Advice: Get Your Business and Estate in Order Now

The stock market has recently been in a free fall. America has not experienced this level of fear since the days of the polio epidemic in the 1940s and 1950s.

During those decades, polio outbreaks in the U.S. crippled an average of more than 35,000 people yearly. Parents were frightened to let their children go outside. Travel and commerce between affected cities were restricted. Public health officials imposed quarantines on homes and towns where polio cases were found.

Sound familiar?

Now, with the coronavirus, some of those same fears are resurfacing in many ways, from health and safety to the economy, the stock market and personal finances. For many, the current crisis is serving as a wake-up call to get their estate plans in order.

The Coronavirus - Estate Planning Attorneys Kept Busy

"Suddenly business owners -- from mom and pop shops to CEOs of large corporations -- are meeting with estate planning lawyers like no other time than I can recall," says