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Far too many attorneys overcomplicate things, making topics convoluted and difficult to understand to the average person. This blog is committed to explaining legal planning topics in an easy to understand format, in plain English. Enjoy the blogs, and please let us know if there is a topic you would like covered.
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When it comes to financial and estate planning, knowing how to start seems to be the toughest part. While we already have plenty of content on starting estate planning, building up that estate is its own subject. Getting started is very dependent on where you are in life and what goals you have, and...
When my grandfather passed on, I was just a few weeks away from heading out to law school. My grandmother helped raise me after my mother passed on, so when she started calling me in law school with legal questions, I did my best to explain things to her in plain English because whenever she talked ...
The internet can be a tremendous help with research. However, there are a lot of myths, misconceptions, and outright falsehoods out there, especially when it comes to estate planning. We donā€™t have time to list them all, but here are the top five we have curated to help you get started.
1. Wills Do...
One of the biggest frustrations I see in my line of work is when people who are already going through a crisis because of the death or a long-term illness of a family member end up in probate. This time-consuming, frustrating, and paperwork intensive process only compounds the grief and agony they a...
When it comes to estate planning, what you do with your estate is wide open. However, there are only two heavyweights when it comes to how you pass along your estate. You are either using a Last Will and Testament, or a revocable living trust as the base of your plan. But which one is best? Weā€™ll go...
When it comes to estate planning, thereā€™s always more information coming our way. Itā€™s also not just about tax updates or changes to law, but it can often be just better ways to serve our clients through technological advancements and new platforms. While state bar sponsored continuing legal educati...
My law firm and other businesses are committed to providing planning education in the areas of estate, financial, and care assistance planning, and we are adding open livestreams through The Plain English AttorneyĀ® YouTube channel. Our 2024 kickoff event is Estate Planning 101 where we will cover th...
"Never, Would I Ever..."Ā Estate Planning
When many people are thinking about estate planning for the first time, it is not exactly the most comfortable thing to think about. Because of that, there are a lot of contingencies, pathways, and options that people fail to consider. But that's what a goo...
Level One Adulting Starter Pack: A Basic Estate Plan
Many of our trust clients have children who are over eighteen, and around the time of that milestone birthday for the first child, the parents realize they canā€™t keep making financial, legal, and health decisions for their children anymore. And t...
When it comes to estate planning, there are a lot of red flags indicating a need for some specific protections. However, one of the biggest solutions is a well-drafted, optimally-funded revocable living trust to keep the estate out of probate. Here are the top eleven red flags Indicating an elevated...
As part of getting back to basics for people searching to basic estate planning answers, Iā€™m continuing to cover some basic questions that come from Henry W. Abts IIIā€™s book The Living Trust in its Appendix G. While the questions are coming from the book, the answers are coming from my own knowledge...
As part of getting back to basics for people searching to basic estate planning answers, Iā€™m going to cover some basic questions that come from Henry W. Abts IIIā€™s book The Living Trust in its Appendix G. While the questions are coming from the book, the answers are coming from my own knowledge and ...
