by Trust Counsel | Jul 27, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial
If you’re counting down the days to your wedding, divorce is probably the last thing you and your fiancé want to be thinking about, and yet you might be rightfully concerned about what would happen to your assets in the event of a divorce—or your death. You may also...
by Trust Counsel | Jul 20, 2020 | Articles, Family, Health Care Directive
In the first part of this series, we discussed the vital importance of having updated advance directives in place in light of COVID-19. Here, we’ll look at several additional provisions you should consider adding to your directives to address potential contingencies...
by Trust Counsel | Jul 13, 2020 | Articles, Health Care Directive
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the country, doctors across the nation are joining lawyers in urging Americans to create the proper estate planning documents, so medical providers can better coordinate their care should they become hospitalized with the...
by Trust Counsel | Jul 13, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Inheritance, Trusts, Wills
When Chanel’s creative director Karl Lagerfeld passed away in 2019, rumors went wild about who would inherit his $270 million estate. Many of those rumors claimed that he wanted his Birman cat, Choupette, to get it all. A year later, we’re still waiting to get the...
by Trust Counsel | Jul 8, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Trusts, Wills
In January, we reported how the deaths of NBA legend Kobe Bryant (Kobe) and his 13-year-old daughter, Brianna, in a helicopter crash demonstrated the vital need for estate planning for people of all ages. At the time, little was known about the planning strategies...
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