Estate Planning, Probate, Power of Attorney Blogs & More

• Posted in: Estate Planning

I always explain to our clients that their Advance Healthcare Directive is a very personal document. It is because it details your wishes for your personal care, including your desire for pain relief, blood transfusions, and life-saving procedures, just to name a few. But it doesn’t have to stop there; your Advance Healthcare Directive can also be […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

You may have read in one of our previous posts about some of the various options available for distribution of your personal property after your death. Apparently, our firm and our readers are not the only people thinking about the possibility of such a scenario. Anne Tergesen, in her article Divvying Up the Silver, writes […]

• Posted in: Elder Law

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity” – Tom Stoppard Aging is not a common topic of conversation in our culture.  Just look at our movies and television shows and you can see that they are very youth-focused, even our commercials tell us how to stay younger longer.  With all this focus on […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

If you have thought about your final wishes at all, you have probably thought about who you want to be the beneficiary of your property upon your death; your spouse, your children, or maybe your grandchildren. But as estate planning attorneys, we will ask you to think a little beyond that, to plan for what […]

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I recently visited a friend in the hospital. The visit reminded me that we plan for vacations, we plan for retirement, but sometimes the most important thing to plan for is the one you don’t know is coming. Very few of us expect to have an extended stay in the hospital, but this shouldn’t stop […]

• Posted in: Business Planning

Business partners often end up with strong friendships, but is it possible for friends to succeed as business partners? It would seem to be a natural evolution; you know each other, you like each other, enjoy spending time together, and work well together. But the transition from friends to partners may not be as easy […]

• Posted in: Books

If you’re like me, you probably have “To Do” lists filled with tasks like ‘pay the bills’ or ‘wash the car’, but how many of those lists evoke a feeling of heavy obligation rather than pleasant anticipation? If you were to take your list of “Things to Do” and add onto the end of it […]

• Posted in: Elder Law

You’re an educated person. You have a degree, you’ve held a job, had responsibilities and a family. You’ve always done the smart thing and made what you hope are the right decisions, and you’d like to continue doing the smart thing. So when an “expert” hands you a flyer and tells you that for a few hundred or […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

Have you ever watched a group of children divvying up a stash of sweets?  The process can be the most civilized thing you will ever witness, or it can resemble a pack of wild dogs descending on a fresh kill.  The process of distributing the personal effects of a deceased family member can fall within […]

• Posted in: Estate Planning

They say that opposites attract, which means that you and your spouse probably have varied interests and talents that complement each other and make it easier to share household tasks; one of you cooks and the other cleans, one of you does the outdoor chores and the other the indoor chores. Chances are good that […]