by Trust Counsel | May 3, 2023 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Financial, Inheritance, Trusts, Uncategorized, Wills
You’ve probably heard you need a trust to keep your family out of court and maybe out of conflict in the event of your death or incapacity. And, if you haven’t, you are hearing it now. If you own any “probatable” assets in your name at the time of your incapacity or...
by Trust Counsel | Jan 27, 2023 | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family, Inheritance, Kids Protection Planning, Trusts
Your estate plan will need a few updates if you’re getting divorced. While you may not be thinking about dying yet, having an estate plan that reflects your new reality will help protect your assets and ensure the people in your life get what they need. You and...
by Trust Counsel | Jun 23, 2022 | Articles, Celebrity Estates
There’s something about a rebel who lives life on his own terms that is like a magnet: it’s sometimes hard to turn away and that’s how many were responding to celebrity Anthony Bourdain’s passing. Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur. Bourdain certainly lived his...
by Leslie Marenco | Jul 31, 2014 | Articles, Celebrity Estates, Estate Planning, High Net Worth, Trusts
After the death of Steve Jobs the rumors started circulating that he was so smart that he even knew how to avoid paying estate taxes better than anyone else. Jobs was smart and he seems to have had an attorney do a great job with his estate planning, but he certainly...
by Leslie Marenco | May 3, 2014 | Articles, Case Law, Estate Planning
I have written before about the risks of do-it-yourself estate planning and explained how people who use these methods end up with a false sense of security. They create documents that they believe will address their needs but wind up being ineffective and much more...
