Key Takeaways on Updating Your Estate Plan Regularly reviewing and updating your estate plan is essential to ensure your money, property, and health care preferences are managed and distributed as you wish. Life changes such as marriage, divorce, birth, or…
Key Takeaways: Using a Deed to Transfer Property at Death Using a deed can help your heirs avoid probate court delays and expenses. However, deed transfers offer less control, no creditor protection, and no support if you become incapacitated. A…
Most of us spend little time thinking about death or losing the capacity to manage our own affairs. These are unpleasant topics and banishing them from our minds is easier than entertaining them. Death, however, is inevitable and becoming incapacitated…
At the age of 18 (in most states), your once needy young child becomes an adult overnight. Now your child is free to vote, marry, apply for a credit card, make medical and financial decisions, sign contracts, and live independently.…
Can I just add my children to my bank accounts if I want to leave my bank holdings to them? That idea sounds better than it actually is. Yes, you would avoid court proceedings when you pass. But you’d put…
You can hear your mother say something like that, right? And how often have you wished that you’d followed mother’s good advice? Nobody really wants to think in advance about accidents or illness. But if no advance planning has been…
As your family members age and become ill, they become targets of fraud and theft. Targeted attacks on vulnerable older people to exert what attorneys deem "undue influence" constitutes elder abuse. It disrupts the older persons' impulse to provide for…