Elder Law Essentials in Texas
Elder law is an aspect of estate planning focusing primarily on the needs of families and individuals as they age.
Don’t Delay Updating Your Estate Plan
Changes in tax law and in your personal life may mean that yours needs to be updated. Here are the easiest (and smartest) ways to do it.
Estate Planning Disaster: Divorce, Death and Missed Details
After the divorce, Mike logged onto the employer’s benefits system and tried, but failed, to delete Wendy as the beneficiary of his life insurance.
These Celebrities Didn’t have Wills…But You Should
When the rapper Coolio died in September, he joined a group of notables that includes Prince, Howard Hughes and Pablo Picasso—all of whom died without specifying who should inherit their money and estate.
How to Protect an Estate from a Rotten Son-in-Law
Whatever the reason, whether your life is a bed of roses or a getting-worse-nightmare, there are things you can do now to insure what you leave will go to who you want. And when. And in what portion or portions.
Can a Vacation Home Be Kept in the Family for Generations?
These vacation homes may also comprise a significant portion of the family’s wealth. Therefore, it’s understandable that homeowners want to pass their properties and family traditions to future generations.
Who Were the 119 Heirs to a Chicago Man’s $11 Million Estate?
It turns out it’s not just in the movies that you can get a huge inheritance from that uncle you never knew about.
What about House Contents when Someone Dies?
It is quite a tragedy when a loved one passes away. You may want to remember them by keeping sentimental objects from their home, or perhaps they wanted you to inherit a specific item.
Create a Legacy With Your IRAs
Maximize the impact of your legacy and make sure it supports the people and causes that are most important to you.
Living Trust vs. Last Will – Which is Right for You?
In this article, we will address two terms which some people use interchangeably, but which are very different things: living trusts and estate plans.
