by Leslie Marenco | Jun 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
When you are a kid, finding a suitable gift for Father’s Day can be a struggle. You want to get Dad something he’ll enjoy, but few young people can afford a new set of golf clubs or a shiny new grill, so you end up settling once again for the standard necktie and...
by Leslie Marenco | Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nearly three years have passed since Aretha Franklin, known as the “Queen of Soul,” died from pancreatic cancer at age 76. When she first passed away in August 2018, her family thought that Aretha died without any estate plan at all. But since then, four different...
by Leslie Marenco | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nearly three years have passed since Aretha Franklin, known as the “Queen of Soul,” died from pancreatic cancer at age 76. At the time, her total fortune was estimated to be worth up to $80 million. Yet due to poor estate planning, the late singer’s children have yet...
by Leslie Marenco | May 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The creators of ‘Framing Britney Spears’ recently revealed that they left much out of the documentary and have enough original material, plus follow-up information, to make a subsequent documentary regarding Spears’ conservatorship entanglement. With all the recent...
by Leslie Marenco | Jan 8, 2021 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Case Law, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Financial, Uncategorized
Although you might think of your team as family and believe that they would never sue you, lawsuits filed by employees are actually one of the most common causes of litigation for business owners. In fact, nearly one in every five small businesses will eventually get...
by Leslie Marenco | Jan 1, 2021 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Inheritance, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills
Last week in part one of this series, we discussed how Hsieh became an Internet pioneer, starting two wildly successful companies, LinkExchange and Zappos, the latter of which he sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion. It was as CEO of the online shoe brand Zappos where...
