Powerful Provisions In Your Financial Power Of Attorney In a financial power of attorney, you designate a trusted decision maker (agent or attorney-in-fact) to act on your behalf if you become disabled or unable to manage your financial affairs. Depending on the provisions you choose to include, your agent may have the power to buy [...]
Meat Loaf’s $40 Million Estate: The Legacy Of a Rock & Roll Icon The Possible Fates Of Meat Loaf’s Estate Meat Loaf, whose real name was Michael Lee Aday, passed away earlier this year at the age of seventy-four. The singer behind 1977’s Bat Out of Hell—one of the best-selling albums of all time—experienced ups [...]
Trust Funding: Setting Your Trustee Up for Success For many people, a revocable living trust is a valuable tool to ensure that their finances are well managed during periods of incapacity and that their loved ones are financially secure upon their passing. However, signing the trust agreement doesn’t end the estate planning process with your [...]
How to Help Your Loved Ones (and Assets) Avoid Probate Today, many people are using a revocable living trust instead of a will or joint ownership as the foundation of their Estate Plan. When properly prepared, a Living Trust avoids the public, costly and time-consuming court processes of Arizona conservatorship or guardianship law (due to [...]
Primer on Asset Protection: Part 2 How to Protect your Assets from the Costs of Nursing Home Care This is Part 2 in our series, A Primer on Asset Protection Law. In Part 1, we discussed asset protection in the business context. In the coming weeks, we will address other aspects of asset protection law [...]
A Primer on Asset Protection Law: Part 1 Asset Protection for Businesses and Business Owners Many of our clients are already business owners or are entrepreneurially-minded individuals who are considering starting a new venture. When counseling with these clients, there are a variety of asset-protection issues that seem to come up on a regular basis. [...]
