How Can I Make Changes to an Estate Plan?
Updating one’s estate planning documents involves changes to one’s trust, will and/or designation of death beneficiaries, as relevant. To be effective, such updates must be done correctly.
Will New Tool Help Dementia Patients and Their Doctors?
Long-term care providers could soon have access to a newly developed tool that can accurately predict the life expectancy of dementia patients.
What Is So Important About Powers Of Attorney?
A power of attorney names a person who can act on your behalf. This person is called your “agent” or “attorney-in-fact.” Before you create a power of attorney, you should know your options and which ones your home state allows.
Your Estate Plan is a “Dynamic Document”
Failing to ensure that your asset titling and beneficiary designations are coordinated with your estate plan, can lead to unintended costs, taxes and outcomes.
Estate Planning Checklist, Especially for Procrastinators
Nobody likes to think about dying. However, it happens whether we prepare for it or not. If you don’t do some advance planning, it can cause even more longer lasting pain and grief, not to mention money and strained relations for your loved ones.
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne Have an Estate Plan
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne plan to pass on their significant fortune to future generations of their family.
When Is It Time For My Dad To Give Up Driving?
Older drivers these days are keeping their licenses longer and logging more miles on their cars than in the past, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Nevertheless, fatal crash rates do tend to increase considerably after age 70 and reach their peak among drivers 85 and older.
If You’re Going to Die, You Need an Estate Plan
Estate planning sounds like you need to be of nobility and own country estates before it applies to you. However, estate planning only means that you are making a plan for when you pass away or are no longer able to make good decisions for yourself.
Have an Estate Plan, for Your Children’s Sake
After someone’s death, it is typically a time of grief, high emotion, fear of the unknown and confusion. A good estate plan can alleviate some of this.
Estate Planning Is For Everyone
The most common misconception estate planning attorneys hear, is that someone doesn’t need an estate plan because their client isn’t elderly or on death’s door.