by Randy Coleman | May 26, 2017 | Disability Planning, Elder Care, Elder Law, Estate Planning, estate tax, Guardianship, Living Will, Long Term Care, Medicaid Planning, Nursing Homes, Retirement Planning, Special Needs Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills & Trusts Law, Wills and Probate |
A new book suggests that estate planning and elder care and a loved one’s death are especially important for today’s complex modern families. In Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss, the authors contend that the current approach to estate...
by Randy Coleman | May 22, 2017 | Beneficiary Designations, Designation of Health Care Surrogate, Durable Power of Attorney, Estate Planning, Guardian of a minor child, Health Care Power of Attorney, Non-Traditional Family, Premarital Agreements, Tenancy by the Entireties, Titling of Assets, Uncategorized, Wills & Trusts Law |
Estate planning is the process of developing a strategy for the care and management of your estate if you become incapacitated and upon your death. One commonly known purpose of estate planning is to minimize taxes and costs, including taxes imposed on gifts, estates,...
by Randy Coleman | Apr 13, 2017 | Disability Planning, Estate Planning, Executor, Trust Administration, Trustee, Uncategorized |
If you have a revocable living trust, you probably named yourself as trustee so you can continue to manage your own financial affairs, but eventually someone, as your successor trustee, will need to step in for you when you are no longer able to act due to incapacity...
by Randy Coleman | Jan 6, 2017 | Advance Directives in Florida, Beneficiary Designations, Designation of Health Care Surrogate, Disability Planning, Durable Power of Attorney, Health Care Power of Attorney, Intestacy, Joint Tenants with Right of Survivorship, Living Will, No Will, Personal Representative, Probate, Probate Law, Revocable Living Trusts, Tenancy by the Entireties, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills & Trusts Law, Wills and Probate |
The beginning of a new year is a good time to take a look at your estate plan to make sure it is up to date. Less than half of people in the US actually have any estate planning documents in place and many of those people may have outdated documents. Documents that...
by Randy Coleman | Aug 2, 2016 | Asset Protection, Beneficiary Designations, Discretionary Trusts, Domestic Asset Protection Trusts, Estate Planning, Florida Asset Protection, Spendthrift Trusts, Trust Administration, Trusts, Uncategorized |
How to Protect Your Heirs and Your Legacy from Bad Decisions and Outside Influences Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance to protect your heirs isn’t as hard as you might think. –...
by Randy Coleman | Jul 28, 2016 | Elder Care, Elder Law, Long Term Care, Medicaid Planning, Nursing Homes, Qualified Income Trust, Uncategorized |
In recent years many non-lawyers have started businesses offering Medicaid planning services to seniors as an alternative to Medicaid planning lawyers. While using one of these services may be seem to be cheaper than hiring Medicaid planning lawyers, the overall costs...
