I’m sure you have heard this less than eloquent phrase before – “Garbage in, garbage out.” The phrase is typically used in computer programming and scientific research. Unfortunately, it also applies to the law, legal documents, and writing your own Will.
Read More »Is a Revocable Living Trust Right for You?
Revocable Living Trusts have become the basic building block of estate plans for people of all ages, personal backgrounds, and financial situations. But for some, a Revocable Living Trust may not be necessary to achieve their estate planning goals or may even be detrimental to achieving those goals.
Read More »The Many Needs for Life Insurance in Our Lives
The main reasons most people have life insurance are to pay final expenses (medical, funeral, burial, etc.), replace an income stream and/or create wealth for our dependents after we die. Life insurance can also play an important role in business, estate planning and charitable giving.
Read More »4 Tips for Avoiding a Will or Trust Contest
A will or trust contest can derail your final wishes, rapidly deplete your estate, and tear your loved ones apart. But with proper planning, you can help your family avoid a potentially disastrous will or trust contest.
Read More »Will Declared Invalid Because of Missing Signature
When people write their own wills without the assistance of attorneys, they often forget important steps and risk having their will invalidated. Such is the case with the will of one man from Minnesota.
Read More »What Documents Do You Need to Find After a Loved One Dies?
Having a loved one die is already hard, but not knowing which legal documents you need to find is even harder. What are these documents?
Read More »Thinking of Saving on a Will? Think Again
Today it is easy to save money while having a will drafted as a plethora of online services offer downloadable forms and many cut rate providers offer to draft cheap wills. This is causing problems for families in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Read More »Can You Trust Your Doctor with Your Will?
Doctors are normally viewed as trustworthy. We trust them with our lives. A lawsuit in New York suggests that it might not be wise to trust those same doctors with our estate plans.
Read More »Online Will Registration
It is not always easy for descendants to locate the wills of the deceased. A new online service hopes to provide the first national solution to that problem.
Read More »Debate over the Fate of Bobbi Kristina Brown
There has been much media speculation about the debate in Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family over whether or not to remove her from life support. The debate has been framed as a moral and religious one, but what might really be driving it is something much simpler, her mother’s money.
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