The Role of an Estate Planning Attorney

There are several options for creating an estate plan on your own. That might lead you to wonder what role an estate planning attorney can play and whether you should hire one. If you can do something by yourself without taking too much time to do it, you are probably hesitant to hire someone to [...]

2016-09-20T11:17:00-07:00September 20th, 2016|Preparing for Consult|Comments Off on The Role of an Estate Planning Attorney

A Trust Is Worth It

Setting up a trust can be time-consuming and there is no doubt that even the simplest trust takes some work to create. However, taking the time and making the effort is worth it. A common question people have when they start to think about estate planning is whether it is worth the effort to create [...]

2016-09-19T10:55:00-07:00September 19th, 2016|Trusts|Comments Off on A Trust Is Worth It

Estate Plans That Work

Estate plans that are perfect on paper can later become completely unworkable. To avoid that and have a good estate plan, you need to take a few simple steps after you get an estate plan. When you walk out of an estate planning attorney’s office with a newly executed estate plan in your hands, do [...]

2016-09-18T10:11:00-07:00September 18th, 2016|Preventing Estate Challenges|Comments Off on Estate Plans That Work

What You Need to Know About Estate Planning

Estate planning can be a complicated topic to learn. However, most people only need to know the basics and where to find a good attorney. If you are trying to research estate planning online, you will be forgiven if you get a headache. There are many articles written on the subject, but they often have [...]

2016-09-17T11:09:00-07:00September 17th, 2016|Preparing for Consult|Comments Off on What You Need to Know About Estate Planning

The Basics of Trusts

When looking for estate planning advice people often see suggestions that they should create a trust. That is only helpful if they know what a trust is. The Internet is full of estate planning advice most of which tends to suggest that people should get a trust. The benefits of doing so are often explained [...]

2016-09-16T11:33:00-07:00September 16th, 2016|Trusts|Comments Off on The Basics of Trusts

Do You Really Need to Sell Your House to Afford a Nursing Home?

All too often when one spouse in a marriage needs nursing home care, the couple assumes that the only way they can pay for that care is to sell their home. That might not be the case. Overall, Americans do a poor job of planning for their estates and making plans should they need long-term [...]

2016-09-15T11:26:00-07:00September 15th, 2016|Preventing Estate Challenges|Comments Off on Do You Really Need to Sell Your House to Afford a Nursing Home?

Using Social Media to Abuse the Elderly

A federal agency is cracking down on a disturbing new form of elder abuse: nursing home workers using social media to share degrading pictures and videos of nursing home patients. Now that most people have smart phones, most people also have cameras with them at all times. Many people like to use those cameras to [...]

2016-09-14T11:09:00-07:00September 14th, 2016|Social Media|Comments Off on Using Social Media to Abuse the Elderly

Mistakes Lead to False Reports of Death

Every year the Social Security Administration accidentally lists thousands of people as deceased. That’s actually an improvement for the agency. The Social Security Administration pays benefits to millions of Americans until they pass away. The agency has an interest in knowing when people pass away so it can stop paying those benefits. When a person [...]

2016-09-13T10:45:00-07:00September 13th, 2016|Elder Law|Comments Off on Mistakes Lead to False Reports of Death

Proposed Budget Cuts Threaten Access to Social Security

That the Social Security trust fund will eventually run out of its surplus is not the only potential threat to the program according to officials. There is another threat that is much more immediate. Everyone should be aware by now that the Social Security trust fund will eventually run out of money. However, that is [...]

2016-09-12T11:05:00-07:00September 12th, 2016|Social Security|Comments Off on Proposed Budget Cuts Threaten Access to Social Security

Social Security Website Security

In response to numerous complaints the Social Security Administration is temporarily rolling back a new security measure on its website. Entering a username and a password on a website is no longer considered an adequate measure to protect people from identity theft. The login information is stored in databases that can and sometimes are hacked [...]

2016-09-09T11:02:00-07:00September 9th, 2016|Social Security|Comments Off on Social Security Website Security
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