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Avoid Caregiver Burnout
Many of our clients provide care for their elderly loved ones; some even providing constant, around the clock care. Care-giving is a demanding, overwhelming, and often grossly under-appreciated job. In addition to giving up their own time, needs and interests, caregivers have to watch someone they love slowly regress and lose the ability to do […]
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Wills and Trusts
It is human nature to want to be as informed as possible before making big decisions, and although we all know how important it is, the decision to create an estate plan is a BIG one. Most people like to do a little research and asking around before putting themselves at the mercy of an […]
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Not All Healthcare Directives Are Created Equal
Google is getting into the healthcare industry. Google recently made it possible for individuals to store their healthcare records online through their Google Health Records Management Service, a move that has met with mixed reviews. Even more recently, Google Health has started offering another, similar, service: storage of your “end-of-life wishes” along with your healthcare […]
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Talking Taxes Now Brings Big Savings Next April
Everyone knows that March and April are tax season, when everybody scrambles to get their taxes done, mailed off, and out of mind for the rest of the year; but according to this article from Reuters the taxes you pay in April can be significantly lower if you take the time to think about them […]
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Sharing the Nest When Adult Children Fly Home
If you have adult children then you know that it’s more than just credit limits and investment accounts that have been affected by the slow economy; companies also are tightening their belts, and people of all ages are finding it harder to get (or keep) jobs. As a result, more and more adult children have […]
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Who Needs An Estate Plan?
The recent unveiling of Michael Jackson’s will has brought up a lot of questions about wills, trusts, and estate planning: Why is his will so short? Does this mean it doesn’t work? Where is all his money going? And then there’s the statement that makes any estate planning attorney shudder in protest: I guess trusts […]
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The Party You Plan But Can’t Attend
Every good will or trust will say something about paying the executor’s “final expenses,” otherwise known as funeral and/or memorial costs. As a small portion of what can sometimes be a very large and intricate document, this “final expense” clause can seem unimportant—but our firm knows better. We know just how important this pre-planning can […]
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Time, Technology, Fire and Flood: 3 Tips to Protect Your EP Documents
A good friend called and told me all the things that went wrong yesterday. Anyone who has been around long enough knows that accidents happen, Murphy’s Law does exist, and things have a tendency to go wrong occasionally; computers crash, fires happen, pipes break and flood your home. And sometimes things just get lost during […]
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Presidential Wills in Our Nation’s History; a Fourth of July Tribute
On the Fourth of July we look to our nation’s history and appreciate the people and events of the past that have brought us to where we are today. In that spirit of reflection, we offer on our blog this holiday weekend some of our nation’s history as relates to estate planning: the last wills […]
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Michael Jackson’s Will Answers Few Questions
The past week has been filled with media speculation about Michael Jackson and his will: Did he have one and what might be in it? Well the waiting is finally over… kind of. It turns out Michael Jackson did create a will, which was submitted to the California probate courts earlier this week. The will […]
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