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Holding Space for Grief: Ways to Comfort and Support A Loved One in Mourning

by Trust Counsel | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family, Guardianship, Inheritance, Kids Protection Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills

Losing a loved one is an incredibly challenging experience, and the journey through grief can be both complex and overwhelming. Unfortunately, we all experience grief at one time or another, and knowing how to manage your own grief and how to be there for others who...

The Melting Legacy: The Icy Feuds and Creamy Conspiracies of Tom Carvel’s Ice Cream Empire

by Trust Counsel | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Probate, Retirement

Tom Carvel, the father of soft-serve ice cream, provided us with generations of creamy, ice-cold delights while also being the mastermind behind the franchise system in the United States. It all started back in 1934 when Tom’s ice cream truck got a flat tire on...

Bruce Willis Sells $65M In Property and Life with Frontotemporal Dementia

by Trust Counsel | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Asset Protection, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, Health Care Directive, Real Property / Real Estate, Retirement

Strategic Real Estate Shifts: Preparing for Life’s Changes In anticipation of his health decline, Bruce Willis strategically offloaded nearly $65 million worth of luxury properties, a move that insiders say reflects a deliberate preparation for a shift in...

Heath Ledger: Lights Out, Legacy Unbound

by Trust Counsel | Jun 9, 2023 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Uncategorized

Whether you know him from his breakthrough role in “10 Things I Hate About You,” “A Knight’s Tale,” or his haunting and infamous performance as the one and only bat-hating gangster, the Joker, Heath Ledger, in his short, memorable life,...

Keep the Government and Lawsuit Happy Opportunists Away From Your Children’s Inheritance

by Trust Counsel | Jun 6, 2023 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family, Financial, Inheritance, Trusts

If you have a current estate plan, I’ll bet you plan to leave your assets to your children outright and unprotected by age 35, or maybe a little later. Go take a look at your estate plan, and see what it does right now. And, if you don’t have an estate plan, and...