Money Changes Everything
Understanding How Assets are Divided Money, particularly large amounts of it, can wreak havoc on a family. Losing a loved one, particularly a parent, results in complicated emotions and deep ...
Inheriting Intellectual Property
Intellectual property includes patents and copyrights. Patents and copyrights give inventors, authors, artists and musicians exclusive rights to financially benefit from their creations for a limited time. They protect the ...
What Happens to Your Business When You Can’t Run It?
Three Questions to Ask about Your Business Plan 1. If tragedy struck and you suddenly passed away, or fell too ill to work, what would happen to your business? You ...
Estate Planning and the Family Cabin
Leaving the Family Cabin or Farm–and Everything in it! When we leave real property, there is often personal property in it which we may or may not intend to be ...
Update Your Inventory of Assets Often
Updating your Inventory Helps Your Beneficiaries When someone passes away, there are piles of paperwork which require attention from the designated personal representative or from the person assigned to take ...
Estate Planning for Modern Families
Modern Families Need Help Planning Estates With more than half of all marriages ending in divorce, and many of those people getting married a second, or even third time, there ...
HIPAA and Your Family
HIPAA Compliance and Your Family “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996” (also known as HIPAA) was drafted to protect the privacy of patient information. HIPAA limits the ...
Planning Your Children’s Inheritance
Make a Specific Plan for Your Children’s Inheritance When you work with an estate planning attorney, you can create a specific plan to leave your children their inheritance in a ...
Changes in Tax Laws Help New York and New Jersey Estates
Changes in Federal Tax Law Benefits Most Estates In December 2010, Congress passed new tax legislation which raised the amount people can leave as inheritance and the amount people can ...
What Will You Leave Your Children—Other than Money?
Parents Have Hopes and Dreams If you are a parent, you likely have hopes and dreams for your children. Maybe your dream for your daughter is medical school followed by ...