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How to Avoid Family Conflict When Making an Estate Plan
May 24, 2013
Personal Family Lawyer

Unfortunately, money has a habit of bringing out the worst in people, even in the best of families.  One of the most important reasons to get your [city/state] estate plan handled is to keep your family out of conflict.  And, […]


Is part time employment included in an Idaho child support calculation?
March 18, 2013
Family Law

The Idaho child support guidelines state that additional part time employment is excluded from income for child support calculations if the person can show: “(1) the excess employment is voluntary and not a condition of employment, and (2) the excess […]


How Your Taxes Will Change in 2013 – In A Nut Shell
January 3, 2013
Personal Family Lawyer

The bill approved in Congress to avert the fiscal cliff would bring the first major tax increase on high earners in 20 years. Payroll Taxes Increase to 6.2% from 4.2% (almost a 50% increase) Taxpayers Making $200,000 (Single), $250,000 (Couples) […]


Not The End But A New Beginning
May 4, 2012
Personal Family Lawyer

In the next two months, those words will ring out in high school graduation ceremonies all across the country. And if you have a high school senior in your home, then chances are that things are about to change dramatically, […]


QTIP Trusts
April 20, 2012
Personal Family Lawyer

A QTIP trust, or Qualified Terminable Interest Property trust, is a special type of A/B trust. Have I lost you yet? Not to worry… keep reading! Let’s start at the beginning. An A/B trust is a marital trust system comprised […]


More About Your Estate Plan
April 13, 2012
Personal Family Lawyer

The revocable living trust is the basic building block of most estate plans. It’s the tool that allows your estate to avoid the expense, time consumption, and uncertainty of probate court, and it is the tool that can hold just […]


Election Year Antics
February 8, 2012
Personal Family Lawyer

Welcome to politics in 2012! Did you sign up for what we’re getting in America? In many ways, nobody is happy with the landscape. Most of us—Independents, Democrats, and Republicans alike—are unhappy (or even disgusted) with politics in general. It’s […]


Assets Without Physical Form
November 8, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

There’s been a lot written about estate planning in recent years. That’s partially because federal laws on the taxation of estates have changed a lot in the past few years, and they will be up for discussion by Congress again […]


Professional Guidance Through a Complex Process
October 18, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

There is a widespread misconception that estate planning is simply a method of directing one’s assets to designated beneficiaries in the event of death. That’s simply too narrow of a view. Estate planning is necessary—crucial in fact–in the event that […]


Three Reasons for Having a Living Trust
October 5, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

There are a multitude of reasons to have a living trust. We can’t begin to cover them all, but we will touch on three reasons very briefly here.   Reason #1: Protecting Property for Certain Beneficiaries   When most of […]


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