by Christine | Oct 1, 2015 | Estate Planning |
We love to plan happy events – vacations, weddings, backyard parties. Planning for your eventual demise doesn’t have the same appeal. Yet if you want to at least try to have some hand in your last years, months, days or even hours of life, planning is the way to go....
by Christine | Sep 25, 2015 | Estate Planning, Will Contest |
It’s been nearly ten years since litigation over the James Brown estate. Funding from his “I Feel Good” trust, has yet to make its way to needy students in North Carolina and Georgia because of several will contests. One last issue – the value of the estate, which is...
by Christine | Sep 23, 2015 | Estate Planning, Living Trust, Wills |
The stories of family relationships destroyed by the lack of wills or unfair distribution of assets are heartbreaking. Despite all evidence to the contrary, people somehow think that their adult children will be special and manage to work things out. This is rarely...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2015 | Estate Planning, Pet Trust |
Pet Trusts: Not Just for Dogs and Cats The growing popularity of Pet Trusts in the United States is further proof that as a nation we love our pets and consider them members of our families, even if they have fur, whiskers, or in this case, feathers. It’s one...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2015 | Estate Planning |
Known as bastions of good taste and wealth, Christie's and Sotheby's have been engaged in a knock-down fight over which of the famed auction houses will handle A. Alfred Taubman's $500 million art collection. How strange that the estate of the deceased,...
by Christine | Sep 10, 2015 | Estate Planning |
When a man who had remarried passed away, his children were less upset about his leaving everything to their stepmother as they were about her decision to liquidate the family home and furnishings. Rather than give them an opportunity to enjoy things that had special...
