Join the MIT AgeLab for our next MIT AgeLab Aging & Equity webinar!

Dramatic shifts in rates of divorce, remarriage, cohabitation, and life-long singlehood over the past decades have created a context in which rising proportions of U.S. adults are growing old outside of marriage, are exiting romantic relationships, or establishing new unions in later life. Understanding the ways that relationship statuses and transitions affect estate planning is a critically important goal because executing a signed will or trust enables older adults to guide the distribution of their property to the loved ones they will leave behind upon death. Dr. Shinae L. Choi will share with us her investigation into how romantic relationship trajectories in later life are associated with estate planning, and how these associations differ by gender among older U.S. adults.