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Make Sure Your Kids Are Prepared with This Summer Camp Checklist

Summer camps are expected to be back in full swing this year after two pandemic summers forced them to close or operate at limited capacity. Camp is a great opportunity for kids to make new

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Don’t Have a Lot of Money? Here Are Seven Ways You Can Still Leave Your Family a Great Legacy

Although the word “inheritance” usually conjures up images of property or accounts with significant monetary value, you can leave your family an even longer-lasting inheritance by doing these seven things, whether or not your bank

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Three Steps to Take When the Deceased Has Controlled Substances

There are so many things to think about when a loved one passes away. What to do with the prescription drugs (or other controlled substances) that are in your loved one’s medicine cabinet is not

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Does a Domestic Partner Have the Same Rights as a Spouse When It Comes to Estate Planning?

The short answer to whether couples in a domestic partnership have the same rights as married couples when it comes to estate planning is probably not. To a large extent, the state in which you

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Silent Trusts: Could I Be the Beneficiary of a Trust and Not Know It?

People who have accumulated a substantial amount of wealth during their lifetime are often reluctant to disclose the full extent of their wealth to their children. Although there may be a number of good reasons

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If I Give My Home to My Child in My Will, Can They Take My Home While I Am Still Alive?

The short answer to this question is no. Naming your child as the recipient of your home in your will does not give them any right to your home while you are still living. However,

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Using Beneficiary/Transfer-on-Death Deeds

What Is a Transfer-on-Death Deed? If you own real property, such as a home, in your sole name but you have not created a trust and transferred your property’s title to the trust, it is

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How to Protect Yourself from Claims of Self-Dealing When Serving as a Trustee

What Is Self-Dealing in Trust Administration? A trustee usually has quite a bit of discretion in their management of a trust’s accounts, money, and property (known as assets). At the same time, as a fiduciary,

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What to Know about Nonfungible Tokens

A nonfungible token (NFT) is a unique digital code that represents a digital item such as art or music, as well as a growing number of physical items, that runs on the blockchain (a secure,

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Electronic Wills

What Is an Electronic Will? It was not very long ago that all legal documents were printed on paper and signed with a pen. But in today’s world, where we sign commercial contracts, form and

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