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Reality Check / Reframing – How do You Want Your Loved Ones to Live During Your Final Illness? Surveys show that most people have not named an agent to make health care decisions if they are unable to speak for themselves, nor have they directed in advance their wishes for their healthcare. The usual reasons…
Does your Estate Plan Address your e-Assets? Each day, new technology is introduced and adopted into our daily lives. For example, it is hard to imagine that the iPhone® was first introduced to us in 2007. Five years later, most of us have either adopted it or an android cellular phone into our daily lives.…
Check-in with Your Father – or You May Have an Unpleasant Surprise When Your Father Checks Out Family relationships can be difficult, sometimes leading to a parent and child no longer speaking to one other. When someone is in this situation, it is worthwhile for that person to evaluate his or her long term expectations…
COURT ORDERS SON TO PAY HIS MOTHER’S $93,000 NURSING HOME BILL By definition, “filial” means the relationship of child to parent. Over the past few years, we have seen new state laws addressing this relationship by requiring adult children to be responsible for their parents if their parents cannot afford to take care of themselves.…
When No One Feels Right, How to Decide Who to Name as Guardians Reasons Most Parents Have Not Planned for the Care of their Kids The statistics are staggering: most parents do not have wills or other documents naming guardian(s) of their children if something happens to them. Depending on the source, the percentage is…
AVOIDING INHERITANCE CONFLICTS When your inevitable day comes, your surviving loved ones will grieve for you. Each of them will deal with the loss of you in their own unique way. There will be days, months and years often filled with emotion and conflicts among and between your surviving loved ones. Unfortunately, this can often…
Who Would you Rather Be? Scenario #1 Jason’s mom has to go for hip replacement surgery. She is in extreme pain and the surgery is the only thing that might help. She is 85 years old and has had heart problems for years. She knows that she has executed a Health Care Proxy Directive, but…
State of the Estate Tax Redux Do you know if your family would have to pay an estate tax on your assets if you died today? If you’re like most people, you’re probably worth more dead than alive. It’s not uncommon for average, middle class families to be worth over $1 million at death by…
Not The End But A New Beginning In the next two months, those words will ring out in high school graduation ceremonies all across the country. And if you have a high school senior in your home, then chances are that things are about to change dramatically, both for you and your high school senior.…
Not Too Late To Let Someone Know April 16th was National Healthcare Decisions Day. The point of this “holiday” is to encourage adults to share their private wishes about medical care and end-of-life decisions. Way too many adults harbor the mistaken belief that their loved ones would “just know” what would be desired in an…