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In a world focused on results, it can be easy to forget about the process, and yet if it’s financial security you’re after, the process is all that matters. Lottery winners and a very few crypto millionaires aside, nobody gets…

You could be forgiven for assuming that privacy laws protect your family’s most intimate affairs and yet, at least where estate planning is concerned, nothing could be further from the truth. Once you have passed away, anyone can dig around and try…

August is on the horizon and with it, the time of year that students nationwide are preparing to ship off to college. The moment is at once exciting and stressful. New possibilities collide with new responsibilities. You need to find…

There’s nothing like the question of how to divide an inheritance fairly to give parents nightmares. Likewise, there’s nothing like parents giving more money to one child to cause conflict between siblings. Because the territory here is so fraught, many…

If you follow the news (or even if you don’t), you’ve probably heard the term “conservatorship” more in the last year or two than ever before in your life. Both the Britney Spears conservatorship and the Amanda Bynes conservatorship have…

When you think about all that writing a will entails, it makes sense that there would be more than one way to accomplish the task. A will communicates your final wishes including how you want your assets to be distributed,…

As tax season comes into full view a lot of people have tax deductible donations on their minds. While it may be too late to make a charitable contribution that counts against your 2021 taxable income, plenty of time remains…

If we’ve learned anything throughout the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s that life can be extremely unpredictable. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing what the future holds, or if and when tragedy will strike. While an estate plan…

We wanted to share a blog post from a friend of ours.  Thomas Glascock is an estate planning attorney out of New York. We work together in the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys to help each other create estate…

Yes, estate planning is an effective way to protect you and your assets from the uncertainties of the future. But—perhaps more importantly—estate planning also protects the people you love in countless ways. Estate planning is a gift for your family…