Estate Administration & Probate

Where elderly loved ones are living in somewhat isolated fashion from other family members, it can be prudent to check on them with sufficient scrutiny and regularity to rest assured that they are not falling prey to the machinations of third parties seeking to...

Considerable common sense prevails across an article recently written by a commentator on estate planning for families.Here's a central bottom line directed toward a planner or planning couple that is communicated in that piece: Make it easy on your loved ones.That...

Uh, sooner is better than later?If money management firm Fidelity was soliciting a short response to indicate understanding of the bottom-line takeaway in its most recent report on family communications between adult kids and parents on key estate planning matters,...

We note the current century in the above-cited blog headline for this reason: In the aggregate, Americans are certainly living longer presently, with that reality bringing immediate -- and material -- implications for estate planning.Here's a key one, as referenced in...

Have you ever paused at the term "elder law" and wondered about its focal concerns and parameters?In other words, have you been more than just a bit confused by what that phrase actually means?If so, know without doubt that your uncertainty is hardly singular; in...

Our blog and multiple other media outlets that seek to provide relevant and timely information to readers regarding estate planning considerations often point out the egalitarian nature surrounding that subject matter.In other words: Truly, estate planning is...

"[Y]ou have the right to do whatever you want to with your estate."That is a widely accepted principle, indeed, a truism, regarding how an individual or couple approaches key administration decisions, such as, well, who gets what.And sometimes even more importantly,...

What does teaching children about money management, fundamental business realities, debt/borrowing, credit, economics and other financial matters have to do, if anything, with estate planning?A great deal, actually, given that an effective estate administration plan...

Most people do tend to accumulate things, and the "stuff" that piles up over the course of a lifetime can be considerable.Some of the property -- both real and personal -- that is amassed during one's life is of course valuable, indeed, both in terms of its appraised...

Some select fields of law are certainly a bit more people centric than others are for one very specific reason: people.Arguably, estate planning is one of them, and strongly so.When you think about it, estate administration is centrally about people and nothing else,...