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Stop, In the Name of Love
Go To Post ►: Stop, In the Name of LoveDiana Ross and the Supremes had a hit song by this title in the last century. And the title sums it up. If you’re thinking about doing estate planning, stop thinking, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Do it now!!!
Will Your Partner Own Your Shared Home When You Die?
Go To Post ►: Will Your Partner Own Your Shared Home When You Die?Often an unmarried couple purchases a home with no plans to ever be married but certainly wanting the partner to own the home when one dies. Unfortunately, too often, the title doesn’t allow that because the home’s been purchases with each named as “a single person”. Please check your title to see if indicates how…
Unanticipated Reminder of the Importance of Planning
Go To Post ►: Unanticipated Reminder of the Importance of PlanningThe hardest and possibly best thing you may ever need to do for your parents is plan for the possibility of their losing capacity – so you can act rather than panic.
What happens to your children when you can’t get home?
Go To Post ►: What happens to your children when you can’t get home?Can you even begin to imagine that your children EVER be in foster care, even for only a few hours? It can be avoided with a little thought and planning and a couple of legal documents.
Newly Adult Children Having Their Own Plan, A Father’s Take
Go To Post ►: Newly Adult Children Having Their Own Plan, A Father’s TakeA family that decided to ask and have their new 18 year-olds to execute documents for the peace of mind it brings everyone.
18 Years Old, Already?! YIKES!!!
Go To Post ►: 18 Years Old, Already?! YIKES!!!As hard as it is to believe, 18-year-olds are legal adults. How you interact as a parent with doctors, schools and banks changes dramatically at one second after midnight on that 18th birthday.
Probate: YUCK!
Go To Post ►: Probate: YUCK!Probate is often avoidable. It’s a process that has the lawyers and the courts benefit because, often, a person’s estate plan has been done at all, or not in their best interests. If you are confronted with a probate matter, find an attorney you like, one you believe has your best interests at heart and…
Basic Steps to Estate Planning, Step 3: Establish Your Directives
Go To Post ►: Basic Steps to Estate Planning, Step 3: Establish Your DirectivesDirectives are documents that are essential to have while you’re living. They cover financial and health considerations. Included in these are Durable Powers of Attorney – giving a trusted person powers to transact a multitude of financial transactions; Medical Directions include Designation of Health Care Surrogates – someone to make health decisions; Living Wills –…
Choosing Beneficiaries Can Be A Challenge
Go To Post ►: Choosing Beneficiaries Can Be A ChallengeWe’ve talked about this before. It’s worth reiterating the importance of doing this, it’ll save your family grief that you wouldn’t choose them to experience.
Healing – Closing Gaps
Go To Post ►: Healing – Closing GapsPart of how best to plan is to consider how you might heal rifts in the family or, at least, find a way to be at peace with them.