Protect Your Children Now and in the Future
The article examines how you can use a Family Access Trust or a Family Sentry Trust to protect the inheritance you will leave to your children.
Putting Your Legal Life Back Together After Divorce
Divorce is common today. This article examines how to put your legal affairs back in order after a divorce.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...
This article looks at the factors people consider when making estate planning decisions.
Strategies for Business Succession Planning
The article looks at methods for business succession, including using life insurance to provide liquidity and family limited partnerships for discounting.
What are the Odds
This article examines the need to plan for the unexpected. It gives statistics for the odds of disability and of death from various likely and unlikely causes. It shows the importance to plan for the one certainty in life, i.e., death.
Protecting Your Children from Their Nightmares... and Yours
The article examines statistics regarding divorce in America and how to protect your children from divorce. It examines setting up a divorce protection trust for them as well as using a marital trust for second marriages for your own assets.
Anna Nicole Smith Can Teach Us a Few Things
The article examines the life of Anna Nicole Smith, her marriage, and the will dispute controversy. It encourages readers to be open about their wishes to family members and instructs on the use of a no contest clause.
Privacy Protections: Don't Be Overprotected
Recent federal laws and regulations have created new privacy protections for your medical information. These laws are known as "HIPAA" (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Now physicians, hospitals, health insurers, and other "covered entities" must comply with strict rules or face fines and potential criminal penalties. An innocent mistake would incur a fine of $100. More serious breaches of privacy, such as releasing information for malicious harm, could result in fines of up to $250,000 and 10 years in prison. Understandably, health care providers are being extremely careful about the release of medical information in the face of such penalties.
