Often Overlooked Provisions in a Will
A Provision Disposing of your Residuary Estate. Your residuary estate is all of your property that is not otherwise specifically disposed of in the will. You may acquire more property ...
Estate Planning for Married Couples
When planning for your future and working on an estate plan, married couples have options not otherwise available to unmarried couples. Understanding how estate taxes work between spouses is important ...
Consult an Elder Law Attorney for Peace of Mind
An Elder Law Attorney can help a family plan for medical expenses, minimize tax liabilities and preserve wealth by drafting necessary legal documents including a power of attorney, a living ...
Do It Yourself Legal Matters
In these economic times, people are constantly looking for ways to save money and some are choosing to more things themselves rather than hire a professional. You might decide you ...
Undue Influence can Invalidate a Will
Undue Influence Undue influence is a legal term which generally means that someone has put pressure on an individual to draft a will in a particular way. Undue influence means ...
What are Beneficiaries?
A Beneficiary may be a Person or an Organization Beneficiaries are individuals, trusts, or even organizations who are designated in estate planning documents to receive assets of the estate. Beneficiaries ...
Testator and Testamentary Capacity
Commonly Used Estate Planning Words There are many words used commonly in estate planning which are not used commonly in everyday language. Two of those terms are testator and testamentary ...
Rules for a Valid Will in New York
A Will Must be Witnessed In the state of New York holographic wills are generally not valid and will not be enforced except in limited emergency situations. A holographic will ...
When Should I Update my Will?
This is a common question most people are afraid to ask because they assume if they ask the answer will be “now”. A properly drafted last will and testament should ...
Leaving Unequal Distributions to Children in an Estate Plan
Difficult Estate Planning Decisions Maybe you have a son who has made horrible financial decisions in his adult life and you are worried about leaving him a large sum of ...