Estate-Plan-Trusts
Saving for Retirement
During our working lives, many people fail to realize the importance of saving for retirement. In order to live the lifestyle you desire after you quit working, it? Read more →Second Marriages - Estate Planning Concerns
One of the biggest areas of dispute in estate planning is with second marriages. Here is a question I received. I?ve changed the facts around so that I am not giving specific legal advice. Read more →Selecting an Advantageous Trusts and Estate Lawyer
Trust and Estates is a rapidly growing area of practice in the law that includes estate planning, managing your estate during life and disposing of your estate at your death through the use of trusts, wills and other planning documents. Read more →Some Simple Strategies For Protecting Your Assets
As elementary as it may sound, no matter how much money you make, you still need to find ways to hold onto it. There are many small steps to take that will add up to big savings in the end. Read more →Sometimes a Conservator can be a Good Thing!
The thought of having a conservator appointed for a parent or relative - even a friend or neighbor - is something we all seem to loath. It has all sorts of negative connotations, including the fact that a conserved individual will be paraded through the probate courts with psychiatric and medical evaluations open for all to see. Read more →The Basics Of Estate Planning
Estate Planning may be a word that is encountered by many citizens especially the elderly. What is Estate Planning? What benefits does it provide to people? Read more →The Contingency Lawyer Wants Your Assets!
Imagine a city in the US with a population of one million people. Now imagine that each of those one million people is a lawyer. The mind boggles!For the city to prosper, its residents need to be gainfully employed and so to achieve that, this horde of lawyers launches a reported ninety million lawsuits each and every year against the citizenry of other US cities. Read more →The Living Trust
A living trust has many advantages over a simple will or testamentary trust (trust after death). The first advantage is that it keeps the IRS even further out of the process than does either a will or trust that becomes effective after death. Read more →The Pitfalls of Probate
What is Probate?Probate consists of court proceedings concluding your legal and financial matters after your death. The probate court distributes your estate according to your will and a neutral place to settle any disputes that may arise over your estate. Read more →The Strange Case of Strangi (Or "Life is Strangi(er) than Fiction")
Way back in 1993 in Texas, Mr. Strangi ended up sick with cancer, and gave his son-in-law, an attorney, authority to handle his affairs.The son-in-law (we will call him ? Read more →Aphorism
If you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
Merton Miller