The adage, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” applies in an unintended though most literal manner to the realm of estate planning. A planner who executes a well-crafted will prior to passing leaves behind a legal document that provides for...
Bay Area Estate And Tax Planning Law Firm
Month: August 2018
Blended families may have more issues with estates and wills
Divorce is more common than it was years ago, and so there are more blended families in the United States these days. After all, many people choose to remarry after a divorce, and that often means bringing children from a previous marriage into a newly blended...
Considerations re others acting for you in estate planning
Tick. Tick. Tick.That is the aural imagery advanced in a recent Forbes piece with a “what might go wrong” perspective on estate planning, especially concerning the individuals empowered to act on behalf of a planner. Those persons can be many and with...
Estate planning: What exactly does that term entail?
We use a recent Forbes article on estate planning as a logical launch pad for discussion in our blog post today. That piece focuses on the idea that estate administration inordinately focuses on after-death strategies and outcomes, and not enough on here-and-now...
This estate litigation not fated, but not especially surprising
Glen Campbell unquestionably lived large, having a life that fully justifies the many biographies that will certainly surface in the wake of his recent death. The singer/guitarist was a music legend with a broad-based entertainment career spanning decades.As to his...