One thing you can count on at the beginning of every new year is lots of lists. The best list, the worst list, “my New Year’s resolutions list,” and it goes on and on. Amy Grant has a beautiful holiday song known as “My Grown-Up Christmas...
We’ve noticed that more people are talking about estate planning and are actually doing something about it. I’m not sure if the increase means a concern about our mortality because of the global pandemic, or it is that people finally have some time to get...
I always enjoy our holiday newsletter as we break from the legal topics and communicate something that is important to us. I will admit I am an “open book” or a what-you-see-is-what-you-get type of person, so I’m usually not hard to figure out, but...
Estate planning has more challenges than most realize, and the biggest challenge (by far!) is just getting your initial estate planning done. One of the critical decisions involved with a trust-based estate plan is who will be the surviving trustee, or the manager, of...
How Important Are Those Beneficiary Designation Forms? “It’s all about the assets” can be a very important phrase when ensuring your assets are connected with your estate plan. Although creating the estate plan in the first place is still the most...
Not too long ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, life was normal before this pandemic. There are still plenty of questions on when the coronavirus really began, but it didn’t dominate our lives until sometime in March 2020, and no doubt the invisible...