Estate Planning, Probate, Power of Attorney Blogs & More

• Posted in: Business Planning

Some of our clients are business owners and the hot months from June to August, can be an excruciatingly slow period for some of them. They experience a slow summer slump while their client base goes off on vacation or relaxes at the beach. But rather than viewing this time with dread, why not look […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

Creating an estate plan is a very personal matter, and is usually done privately, with your attorney and with your partner, if you have one.  However, there are some circumstances under which estate planning should be a family affair—perhaps even a multigenerational one. Sean Condon writes about when it might be appropriate to include the […]

• Posted in: Asset Protection

Celebrity divorces can hardly be considered news anymore, they happen so often, but the recently finalized divorce between Bill Murray and ex-wife Jennifer Butler Murray is news because of something they did before the wedding: They signed a prenuptial agreement. And it worked. At least it seems to have worked so far according to the Associated Press. […]

• Posted in: Asset Protection

Are you planning to pass an inheritance on to your children? Ron Lieber, author of this article in the New York Times, writes that leaving a financial legacy may be more difficult than you think. “With each passing year” Lieber writes, “the pressures on the nest eggs of older people will only grow.” Lieber outlines in his […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

Estate planning attorneys get asked a lot of questions about how to protect every different kind of family and situation, but the questions that are asked the most tend to be about trusts.  The topic comes up so often, in fact, that it is useful to review basic trust information occasionally, as author John Ventura […]

• Posted in: Asset Protection

If you’re wondering exactly how much you’ll have to put in the bank to live comfortably when you retire, you’re not alone. But it just got a little bit easier. You now have the recently updated retirement calculator and guide, “Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning”, provided by Uncle Sam himself, to help you […]

• Posted in: Current Affairs

If you have an elderly parent or grandparent, you know how much time and research goes into finding the right care, the right doctor, or the right living situation for them.  Caring for the aging population is a growing industry, with new services and options almost every day. Trying to keep up with it can […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

You’ve met with an attorney, you’ve signed a trust, and you’ve brought copies of it home with you in a nice-looking binder . . . Now what? Are you done?  Well, not quite. The very last step of completing an estate plan is to fund your trust. Funding is the process of putting all of your property […]

• Posted in: Current Affairs

Do you know anyone who has been the victim of elder abuse?  As the pre-baby-boom generation ages, and as the cost of healthcare rises, so do the numbers of elder abuse victims rise as well. Elder abuse encompasses many things, from targeting the elderly in a bank or credit card scam, to the physical abuse […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

Most of us, when we think about divorce, tend to think about people in court, couples fighting, and moving trucks pulling away from the family home; very few people going through a divorce think about their estate plan. But the fact is that you may well need to or want to put your signature on […]