Do you have an estate plan? You should. Estate planning is a way to ensure that your assets are distributed the way that you wish. It can also help protect you in cases where you are incapacitated and need a trusted loved one to make decisions for you. Here are some common myths about estate [...]
Do you have an estate plan? Even if you think you have everything in order, are you sure that you aren’t missing anything? This is a question that many people ask themselves. Fortunately this means that there are other people out there willing to help. Documenting your Plan A will is a tool for distributing [...]
You probably don’t consider your Facebook account or your twitter feed a digital asset. You may not even use those (or other) online services. The fact is though; every paperless credit card or frequent flyer account that you have is a digital asset. While many state governments are still struggling with how to best manage [...]
The news is full of celebrities who pass on and don’t leave detailed instructions about their intellectual property. These oversights can lead to long, drawn out and often vicious family disputes that lead to legal action. If you hold any intellectual property take some time to consider it when you are doing your estate planning. [...]
Having a carefully planned estate can help to ease the pain of your family during a trying time, as well as make sure that your final wishes are carried out in the manner that you wish them to. However, when planning your estate, it is easy to make some common mistakes. Look out for these [...]
If you are one of America’s seniors the term elder law may come up more and more often to you. You may wonder to yourself just what elder law is. How do you know what specific services a law firm specializing in elder law can provide to you and what topics do they specialize in? [...]
Estate planning should just be about what is going to happen to your assets after you are gone. If you are like one of millions of Americans you may end up suffering from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. If this happens, you want to have your estate worked out so that you can live [...]
Estate planning is something that can be hard to think about. Once you have done it, it can be tempting to just let the plan ride and not think about it again. As time passes though, things in your situation might change that will require you to update your plan. Here are some questions you [...]
Having the proper legal documents drawn up for your parents or other elderly loved ones is more important the older they get. Having these conversations while they are in full possession of their mental faculties makes planning easier, but not the conversation. Nobody likes talking about the inevitable, however there are ways to encourage your [...]
When you are gone, you want your estate to provide for families and charities that you cared about. Part of estate planning is deciding what you want to give now as well as after you are gone. Benefits of Giving Now Giving now may help in reducing the tax burden on your estate once you [...]