Estate Planning

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 […]


Estate Planning and Business Succession
September 22, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

Most people hear the words “Estate Planning” and automatically think about wills, trusts, tax issues, and probate. The reality is that estate planning is about much more than just figuring out how to pass on your hard-earned assets. We’ve written […]


A Hypothetical, But It Does Happen
August 4, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

Today we’re going to discuss a situation that happens all the time. It’s a situation that almost nobody thinks about, unless you’re an estate planning attorney, but it does occur often enough to talk about. Consider the following hypothetical: A […]


Beyond the Allocation of Assets
July 14, 2011
Personal Family Lawyer

Estate planning is about much more than just deciding who gets what in the event of your death. It’s also about avoiding unnecessary taxes, and in the event that you have minor children, making sure that custody of your children […]


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