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By Marcia Wade Talbert | Published June 25, 2010 | Full size is 510 × 357 pixels

Hire an estate planning lawyer. Jackson hired John Branca (pictured here at his wedding with Jackson in 1987), who specialized in entertainment and estate planning. Not all lawyers are familiar with how to set up the different types of wills and trusts. Even though Anna Nicole Smith, the infamous model/actor who died in 2007, had a will, Whitman guesses that it was not created by an estate planning attorney because Smith’s will was not a well drafted document and did not include a trust to keep her finances out of the news (Source: ABC News).

Hire an estate planning lawyer. Jackson hired John Branca (pictured here at his wedding with…