Estate Planning with Your Parents
Crucial documents such as a living will, powers of attorney, and living trusts protect a parent’s quality of life.
Keeping Seniors Connected to Avoid Loneliness
While social isolation may make most people feel lonely, loneliness is not the same as being alone.
When Revocable Becomes Irrevocable
Here’s a question we got from a client a while ago: After my brother died, he left money in a revocable trust for my children – but they...
The Key to Advance Directives is a Critical Conversation about Treatment
It is one of the most difficult things we will ever have to do in life to contemplate our own death. Yet it is very important to think...
A Guide to Probate
The American Bar Association (ABA) notes that probate is the legal process that acknowledges a will and appoints a personal...
Asking the Right Questions to Protect Nursing Home Residents
To ensure the well-being of your loved ones in a nursing home, you must advocate for them. Residents in nursing homes and other long-term...
A Guide to Estate Settlement
When appointing someone as the executor or executor-designate of an estate, or when accepting the responsibility of one, there are...
The Probate Process with or Without a Will
The probate process, held in probate court, is well-known to most people, who know the process takes place after someone passes away....
An Ineffective Power of Attorney
Powers of attorney allow you to appoint a trusted individual to make decisions and handle transactions on your behalf. You might need...
Plan for the Future of Non-Traditional Families
The practice of estate planning is evolving due to changing family structures. Thirty years ago, a traditional family consisted of a man...
Different Types of Trusts Explained
The word trust is often used to describe someone who is a beneficiary of a trust fund. Despite the common misconception that only wealthy...
Identifying and Understanding Powers of Attorney
As part of your estate planning process, it is critical to implement Power of Attorney (POA) documents. Powers of attorney are recognized...
Preventing Probate Litigation
Probate litigation typically involves guardianship and conservatorship disputes, will and trust contests, battles over the family home,...
Planning Estates for Unmarried Couples
Americans over the age of 50 are becoming widows or divorcing (in record numbers) and forming new partnerships. It has been reported by...
Wills of Blended Families
In today's American families, stepchildren are common, and they are often treated the same as full biological children, including when...
Online Estate Planning from Start to Finish
You have probably heard by now that maintaining physical distance between us is crucial to preventing the spread of this disease. Find...
Be Prepared for the Unexpected
Those who were not prepared for the sudden rise of the Coronavirus, COVID-19, have been left in the dark. Antibacterial hand sanitizers,...
What Are the Limitations of an Inheritance?
Imagine your spouse is living in a nursing home because of advanced Parkinson's. Medicaid benefits are currently being paid to your...
A Living Will and Its Importance
A living will describe your preferences for life-sustaining medical treatment. Oftentimes, it is accompanied by a health-care proxy or...
Incorporating Cryptocurrency into Your Estate Plan
When it comes to digital assets, traditional estate planning elements are largely obsolete. In the form of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin...