Elder Law and Estate Planning Attorney
If you are in the hospital, you may want your loved ones to be able to access information and have the authorization to know about your prognosis. However, if you have not authorized them to receive specifics regarding your medical Read More …
A power of attorney is a powerful planning document that enables you (the principal) to give another person (the agent or attorney-in-fact) the power to act for you while you are alive. Because it is often prepared in the context of Read More …
One aspect of your estate plan that you may not yet have taken into consideration is your digital legacy. Arranging what happens to your digital assets and information when you pass away has become an increasingly essential component of financial Read More …
Unless you’re certain your parents have an up-to-date will, as well as a big-picture plan for what should happen in the event of their passing, you shouldn’t assume everything will be taken care of. During this season of upcoming holidays, Read More …
What is Mental Incapacity or Incapacitated? As we age, our likelihood of mental incapacity increases. After all, our bodies and minds deteriorate as we age. Mental incapacity could result from dementia, stroke, brain injury, or other illness. What is mental Read More …
Running a small business can keep you busy, but it should not keep you from creating an estate plan. Not having a plan in place can cause problems for your business and your family after you are gone. What Happens Read More …
While everyone should have a durable power of attorney that appoints someone to act for them if they become incapacitated, in some circumstances it is not enough. In these cases, a revocable trust can help. A durable power of attorney Read More …
Being able to make health care decisions for ourselves is so important to us, but what happens if you become incapacitated and are unable to voice your opinion? If you don’t have a health care power of attorney or guardian Read More …
So you have your estate planning documents in order – an updated will, a trust, updated beneficiaries on your life insurance policies and retirement accounts. You have taken care of all the big stuff, maybe even pre-planned the funeral, but Read More …
What do millennial and aging couples have in common? Trends are showing that more older couples are choosing to stay unmarried, despite being in long-term committed relationships. Most married couples understand the importance of estate planning to transfer assets and Read More …
We’re all fairly familiar with the acronym CPR, for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – a process that uses mouth-to-mouth or machine breathing and chest compressions to restore activity in the heart and lungs when someone’s heart has stopped or they are no Read More …
A power of attorney is a very important estate planning tool. Power of attorney (POA) is a legal document in which you give someone else the authority to act on your behalf and most states will accept powers of attorney Read More …
Just bringing up the possibility of someone in your family becoming mentally or physically incapacitated is often difficult. We tend to think of only the very elderly needing long-term, hands-on care, but a recent report by the Alzheimer’s Association found Read More …
Download a copy of :The Legacy Advisor Spring 2018 IRAs and other tax-deferred retirement accounts allow your savings to grow tax free until you start withdrawing funds. Any distributions you take from a retirement account (with the exception of Roth Read More …
Download a copy of The Legacy Advisor Summer 2017 Planning Ahead, Featured Guest Article by Julie Graf Skinner – Funeral Planning Specialist, Funeral Director, Busch Funeral and Crematory Services We exert a great deal of energy in effort to protect our loved Read More …
