Let’s Resolve to Review Your Estate Plan in 2025
The new year provides a timely opportunity to review your plan and ensure that life changes—such as marriages, divorces, or new children—are reflected in your legal documentation. Make 2025 the year you start taking your plan more seriously: Get in touch with our office to schedule a meeting.
New Year’s Trivia Questions (answers appear below)
1. Question: Which country is the first to see the New Year?
2. Question: What is the name of the traditional Scottish song
sung at midnight on New Year’s Eve?
3. Question: What is the most common New Year’s resolution?
4. Question: When did the original “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” broadcast air?
5. Bonus: What network hosted the original show?
6. Bonus: Who hosted the first two editions?
7. Question: What year was the first Times Square ball drop?
8. Question: What do Spaniards eat 12 of at midnight on New Year’s Eve for good luck in the coming year?
9. Question: What country is known for smashing plates on New Year’s to ward off evil spirits?
As the year ends, many people vow to get their financial and legal affairs in order. Including estate planning in your New Year’s resolution can help ensure security and preparedness for you and your family. You can review and update your estate plan at a time that fits your schedule, unlike setting an early alarm for a predawn run.
Without updating or having a plan, the state may decide who inherits your assets and who cares for your minor children if both parents are unable. Resolutions are all about living with intention, and there is no better way to live intentionally than through establishing an estate plan.
The Answers:
1. Answer: The island nation of Kiribati is the first due to its position on the International Date Line.
2. Answer: Auld Lang Syne (translation: “old long since” or “for old time’s sake”)
3. Answer: Health, exercise, or diet-related goals
4. Answer: 1972
5. Answer: NBC (the show moved to ABC in 1974)
6. Answer: Three Dog Night and George Carlin
(Dick Clark took over as host when it moved to ABC)
7. Answer: 1907
8. Answer: Grapes
9. Answer: Denmark
New Year’s Eve Fun Facts
The Times Square Ball is 12 feet in diameter, weighs 11,875 pounds, and is covered in 2,688 Waterford crystals.
Occasionally, a “leap second” is added to the world’s official clocks on New Year’s Eve to keep the clocks in sync with Earth’s rotation.
The tradition of kissing at midnight on New Year’s Eve is rooted in ancient superstitions that doing so brings good luck in love and relationships in the year ahead.
The International Space Station crew celebrated the New Year in space for the first time in 2000.
Approximately 30 percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, but fewer than 10 percent are successful at keeping them.
Twenty-three percent of people quit their resolution by the end of the first week; 43 percent quit by the end of January.
The practice of making New Year’s resolutions dates back over 4,000 years to the ancient Babylonians, who made promises to their gods at the start of the year in hopes of gaining favor. They celebrated the new year not on January 1 but at the vernal equinox in mid-March.