A woman was clear about her wishes before she had a stroke — in the case of a serious medical event, she did not want a feeding tube. She had even expressed her wishes in an advance directive, years before her stroke.
We all have witnessed how children have a difficult time understanding why one sibling was treated differently. To overcome this, parents will make the well-intentioned mistake that fair and equal are the same.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a two-part procedure for determining whether a child is eligible to receive disability benefits.
You should go to an estate planning attorney to sort things out and make sure both of you are on the same page about who owns what, who gets to stay where and for how long into the future.
There are milestones in every life. For many, graduations, marriage, children, opening a business and retiring are among these milestones.
We are programmed to contribute the “max” to our retirement accounts and we disregard, or do not understand, the pitfalls of an improperly filled-out beneficiary forms.
Thanks to the Internet, everyone has the ability to draft wills, trusts and a variety of other legal documents. Many documents can be produced for less than $100, requiring only a few mouse clicks and filled-in blanks.
Contemplation of retirement can be both exciting and intimidating. Obviously, planning for the beginning of retirement should start early.
Talking about illness, death and taxes is not most people’s idea of a good time (except for us estate planners). That being said, there are times in life when it’s time to move updating your estate plan off the ‘to do’ list and on to the ‘done’ list. Here are those times:
The durable power of attorney is one of the most effective and important planning tools for medical care and estate planning, since it enables a person (the principal) to delegate certain powers to another (the agent) by means of a written legal document.
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