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Recent studies show that one out of every five adults of working age in the U.S. has provided care to an older adult such as a parent or grandparent. The care, consideration, and sacrifices revealed by this statistic are heart-warming because the relationships strengthened through the caregiving arrangement can be […]
Author: April Nordhaus
You may have heard about strategies for avoiding guardianship or establishing alternatives to guardianship but don’t understand the reason for the concern. What’s so bad about guardianship that you need to pay so much attention to alternatives? While every guardianship proceeding is different, when you understand the overall process and […]
Some people mistakenly believe that if they die without a will, then no one has to deal with probate. Technically, the word probate concerns proving the validity of a will, so there is reason for feeling that a will is necessary for probate, but that is not the case. The […]
If you have served as an executor of an estate before and are now being asked to administer a trust—or vice versa—it is helpful to understand the similarities and differences between the processes. Trust administration is often less complex than estate administration, but that depends entirely on the terms of […]
If you have worked with an estate planning attorney to prepare a comprehensive estate plan, then you are more prepared than most people to face the unknown events of the future. But as time goes by, your level of preparedness decreases unless you have an attorney review your documents, consider […]