COVID-19: Estate Planning & Protecting Your Assets As the world navigates the coronavirus pandemic, many are considering how to care for their loved ones should the worst come to pass. Although it’s not always nice to think about, estate planning is an essential part of securing your financial legacy and maintaining peace of mind.…
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Estate Planning: How to Prepare for Incapacitation Reflecting on your mortality may not be an ideal activity. However, getting your affairs in order is a wise decision for anyone to make as early as possible. When it comes to estate planning, there’s more to consider than the mere documents that determine how your estate…
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What to Know About Estate Planning When You’re Single Estate planning can seem like a simple process when you have a clear idea of who your beneficiaries and representatives will be. However, what if you don’t? In many cases, individuals choose close family members to be the recipients of their estate and decide on…
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Why Estate Planning Should Be at the Top of Your Resolutions List Another year is coming to an end, and another is about to begin. So, now that 2020 is just around the corner, what resolutions are you going to make? Making New Year’s resolutions is a time-honored tradition that exists all around the…
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5 Healthy Communication Tips for Divorced Parents After a divorce, communicating with your ex-spouse can be troublesome and strenuous. The ways you used to communicate with one another may no longer be constructive now that your relationship has undergone a significant change. Dismissing this fact is not an effective (or healthy) route to take…
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4 Estate Planning Points Baby Boomers Can’t Afford to Forget The loss of a loved one at any age can be a trying time. As family members mourn, issues of inheritance, probate and relative distributions can make one sweat. If you are part of the Baby Boomer generation – born between 1946 and 1964…
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5 Common Mistakes When Going Through a Divorce Going through a divorce or separation is stressful for a myriad of reasons. No one is exactly at their best when they are going through it. All too often one’s judgment is clouded by their emotions, prompting quick reactions. Common, costly mistakes can be made throughout…
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What Can Happen to an Estate if There’s No Will Concerned clients routinely ask what happens to their estate if they were to die without a will. If this was the case, the intestacy laws (i.e., laws surrounding what happens when a valid will isn’t present) of the state where you reside determine how…
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Understanding the Process of a Restraining Order and How It Can Affect You We’ve seen plenty of movies and television shows depict individuals who are threatened with restraining orders. It happens so often (even in comedies) that you can’t help but wonder if the characters truly understand the ramifications or the basic concept of…
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What You Can Learn from Aretha Franklin’s Estate Planning Disaster Legendary singer Aretha Franklin, who died in August of 2018 from pancreatic cancer at age 76, had no official will or trust at the time of her passing. Like Prince and many other late music superstars, Franklin sang her heart out but unfortunately failed…
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