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...
Helping You Protect Your Loved Ones And Your Legacy
Year: 2012
Check-in with Your Father – or You May Have an Unpleasant Surprise
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 for what will happen as his or her parent...
How to Protect Your Assets from a Child’s Divorce
A child’s wedding day is one of the happiest occasions in life for most parents, especially when they approve wholeheartedly of that child’s choice of mate. Sometimes, however, the choice is not always welcomed and parents become concerned about how to protect assets...
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...
The Value of Using Irrevocable Trusts in Medicaid Planning
People often wonder about the value of using irrevocable trusts in Medicaid planning. Certainly gifting of assets can be done outright, not involving an irrevocable trust. Outright gifts have the advantages of being simple to do with minimal costs involved, including...
Furry Family
Well, it’s official: Our adopted black kitties are members of the family without prejudice. You may remember my telling you when Karen and I brought them home. They are really cute and provide us a lot of entertainment and, of course, love. (Did you know it’s been...
Pets Are People, Too!
If one were to believe for a second that pets are not important, they might consider the impact owners’ love for their furry friends have on the US economy: Over $35 BILLION spent on grooming, healthcare, shelter, food, etc. To put it in perspective: According to the...
Sweet 16, Swimming, and Safety Nets
I hope you all are still enjoying the Summer! Vacations, summer camp, swimming, camping… all the things that are most fun when it’s warmer weather keep you busy when these things are “thrown into the mix” of your regular routine! We are having a fairly quiet Summer...
A Hypothetical… But It Does Happen
Today we’re going to discuss a situation that happens all the time. It’s a situation that almost nobody thinks about, unless you’re an estate planning attorney, but it does occur often enough to talk about. Consider the following hypothetical: A woman, let’s call her...
Avoid these 10 Common Estate Planning Mistakes
As a Personal Estate Planning Lawyer, I see many of the same estate planning mistakes made time and again by people who either fail to plan properly or who use “do-it-yourself” estate planning websites or forms in an effort to save money. Without professional...
