by Leslie Marenco | Jun 13, 2022 | Estate Planning, Vacation / Travel
Going on vacation entails lots of planning: packing luggage, buying plane tickets, making hotel reservations, and confirming rental vehicles. But one thing many people forget to do is plan for the worst. Traveling, especially to foreign destinations, means you’ll...
by Leslie Marenco | Jun 10, 2022 | Vacation / Travel
Before we dive into our top tips (and lessons learned) for setting yourself up to take a stress-free vacation, let us be clear on what vacation means. When we use the word vacation, we are not referring to a working vacation, we mean a real vacation. The kind where...
by Leslie Marenco | Jan 29, 2021 | Articles, Estate Planning, Family, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, Kids Protection Planning, Probate, Probate Litigation, Trusts, Vacation / Travel
Although you likely won’t need to have an entirely new estate plan prepared for you, upon relocating to another state, you should definitely have your existing plan reviewed by an estate planning lawyer who is familiar with your new home state’s laws. Each state has...
by Leslie Marenco | Dec 4, 2020 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Gift Tax, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Income Tax, Inheritance, Intellectual Property, IRAs / 401(k), IRS, Kids Protection Planning, Liens/Debt, Podcast, Probate, Probate Litigation, Real Property / Real Estate, Retirement, Special Needs Planning, Trusts, Vacation / Travel, Wills
Since you’ll be discussing topics like death, incapacity, and other frightening life events, hiring an estate planning lawyer may feel intimidating or morbid. But it definitely doesn’t have to be that way. Instead, it can be the most empowering decision you ever make...
by Leslie Marenco | Nov 27, 2020 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Gift Tax, Guardianship, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Incapacity, Income Tax, Inheritance, Intellectual Property, IRAs / 401(k), IRS, Kids Protection Planning, Liens/Debt, Non - US Citizen, Non-Probate Asset, Probate, Probate Litigation, Real Property / Real Estate, Retirement, Special Needs Planning, Trusts, Vacation / Travel, Wills
Today, we’re seeing more and more people getting divorced in middle age and beyond. Indeed, the trend of couples getting divorced after age 50 has grown so common, it’s even garnered its own nickname: “gray divorce.” Today, roughly one in four divorces involve those...
by Leslie Marenco | Nov 18, 2020 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Case Law, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Health Care Directive, High Net Worth, Incapacity, Income Tax, Inheritance, Intellectual Property, Kids Protection Planning, Liens/Debt, Scams, Special Needs Planning, Trusts, Uncategorized, Vacation / Travel, Wills
On October 15th, nearly two months after the death of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, his wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, filed documents with the Los Angeles probate court seeking to be named administrator of his estate. Earlier this year, Boseman and Ledward were...
