Recent Posts Tagged With 'estate planning'

• Some Life Events Should Prompt a Visit to Your Estate Planning Attorney

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 10:49 in divorce, estate planning, guardian, wills, prenuptial agreement, antenuptial agreement, beneficiary designation, minor children, contingent trust

  The following is a list of events that warrant setting up an appointment with your estate planning attorney: First Marriage – In most instances when a couple marries, they will want reciprocal wills that leave their estates to each oth...

• Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts

  Posted on Thursday April 9th, 2009 at 13:22 in estate planning, income tax, estate tax, intentionally defective grantor trusts, grantor defective trusts, irrevocable trusts

  What if you paid a significant amount of money to buy something and it was defective?  In one instance, you would be getting exactly what you bargained for.  The intentionally defective grantor trust, sometimes referred to as a grantor defective tr...

• Every Time I See an Ad for LegalZoom I Cringe

  Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 20:13 in estate planning, wills, trusts, legalzoom

  You have seen Robert Shapiro, the criminal attorney known for his representation of O.J. Simpson, on these ads for Legalzoom.com.  He is plugging his website-based product as an easy, inexpensive way to, among other things, form a legal entity, get ...

• Vacation Homes

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 20:16 in real estate, estate planning, vacation home, qprt, ancillary administration, survivorship deed, transfer on death deed

  Do you own or are you considering buying a vacation home?  If you do own a second home or may someday, there are many issues that you should consider.  Here is a link to an article (relatively short) that discusses these issues.  http://tinyurl.co...

• What's a Contingent Trust?

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 12:24 in estate planning, trusts, minor children

  A contingent trust is a written agreement directing how a person's estate should be managed and distributed in the event of a certain occurrence.  In most cases, a contingent trust is used to address the possibility that your spouse does not survive...