3 Unique Ways to Handle the Guilt Inherent to Being a Parent

by Trust Counsel | May 20, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Inheritance

If you’re a parent, you may feel even more guilty than usual.  If so, you are definitely not alone. Currently, the burden is on you to both carry on with your work and manage your child’s full-time care and education. Two full-time jobs that you’re trying to do by...

Little Richard’s Estate Plan

by Trust Counsel | May 13, 2020 | Articles, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Financial

Rising to fame in the founding decades of rock and roll, the story of Little Richard is a true rags-to-riches tale. Little Richard went from washing dishes for a living to a world-famous celebrity, inspiring millions of fans and generations of future musicians and...

Getting Legal Documents Signed During COVID — Another Reason to Not Go It Alone

by Trust Counsel | May 11, 2020 | Articles, Health Care Directive

Wills, trusts, health care directives, powers of attorney, and legal guardian nominations are on many of our hearts and minds as COVID-19 compels us to face our own fragility and mortality. It’s not as if we didn’t know we would all die (or become incapacitated) one...

Protecting Your Parents from Undue Influence during Covid and Beyond

by Trust Counsel | May 4, 2020 | Articles, Estate Tax, Family, Health Care Directive

In a previous article, we shared steps to understanding your parents’ estate planning and the nature of their assets, as well as how to ensure you’re not left with a mess when something happens to them. Today, we want to focus on one of the major risks of not being...

Anderson Cooper is a Dad! Continues Vanderbilt Legacy.

by Trust Counsel | May 1, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Trusts, Wills

Anderson Cooper announced the birth of his son, Wyatt, Thursday evening on his show and in a lengthy Instagram post. His son was born on Monday via a surrogate and is named after his father who died when Cooper was 10.  Cooper said he regretted that his parents and...

Should You (or Your Parents) Be in the Stock Market Now?

by Trust Counsel | Apr 27, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Financial

If you or your parents have a retirement account, (or any investment accounts for that matter) now is the time to get connected to how those accounts are invested. While you may have outsourced all of this to a broker in the past, you can no longer afford to allow...