Monthly Archives: February 2024
Avoiding Challenges Of Undue Influence When Making Your Estate Plan
When our parents or other loved ones get older, they start to need our help more and more. And one thing that you may want to help elderly relatives with, is creating an estate plan. The advice and push to have older relatives create an estate plan, is a smart idea. But what many… Read More »
Don’t Make These Estate Planning Mistakes
When you do your estate plan, you may think it’s a relatively easy process—after all, all you do is take all your stuff, and write down who you want it to go to, rights? Well, actually, despite the fact that this is, at the core, what estate planning is, there are actually a lot… Read More »
Valuing And Appraising Artwork In An Estate
When an estate is opened in probate court, the value of most of the items in an estate need to be valued. That may be for creditors, for tax or IRS purposes, or for the purpose of eventual liquidation, if property will be sold for funds. The Problem with Artwork For some items, it… Read More »
Think About What Assets You Are Leaving In Your Estate Plan
When you make an estate plan, it can be very easy and very tempting to just take everything that you own, and divide it amongst your family—especially if you don’t have a lot of assets, or if you don’t have a lot of family. We often give thought to our family, and who needs… Read More »