Estate Planning · September 08, 2025
A $1.5 million tax mistake devastated the Rowland family, proving that even wealthy families with documents in place can lose everything to a simple oversight. Estate planning isn’t just about having a will or trust, it’s about ensuring your plan actually works when your family needs it most. This article reveals how small errors can trigger massive losses and how Life & Legacy Planning® helps protect your legacy. Read more…
Estate Planning · September 01, 2025
Labor Day honors your hard work and, this year, how far every dollar must stretch. With prices up and benefits shifting, you can’t afford probate delays, court fees, or confusion. This piece shows how Life & Legacy Planning helps working families protect assets, avoid costly hold-ups, and ensure minor children and caregivers have immediate support when it matters most. Give your labor a lasting impact. Read more.
Estate Planning · August 20, 2025
Here are a few things women should know about estate planning and how it can help protect the financial security of loved ones. Things like making less in their careers and having less in savings due to pay discrepancies and time taken out of the workforce to raise their families, estate planning is an even more important task.
Estate Planning · September 09, 2022
Today, It’s critically important to have the appropriate safeguards in place to reduce the risk of fraud and identity theft, especially for your senior parents. Because your parents are unlikely to be as savvy about digital technology and may be losing some of their powers of discernment as they age, it will almost certainly be up to you to help them in protecting themselves—and ultimately, your inheritance.
Business · May 11, 2021
To make certain that your business—and the income it generates for your family—would continue to run smoothly when something happens to you, you need to create a comprehensive estate plan, and it really needs to include a trust. Without such a plan in place, your business will be stuck in an unnecessary court process that could easily cause the loss of everything you’ve worked so hard to build.
Business · November 02, 2020
2020 has set unprecedented variables in business with the advent of COVID-19. You will never know what could go wrong at any given moment. It is possible for your business to be completely swept away by the pandemic without means of protection. One of these means is having comprehensive insurance coverage. This can cover almost anything from properties, professional services, computer systems, business and employment practices and more.
Estate Planning · October 29, 2020
Advanced health care planning is an ideal way to prepare for the future. Being unable to relay your healthcare instructions in the event of death or incapacity will be an added emotional burden to your already distressed loved ones. With the current pandemic overloading hospitals everywhere, it becomes more urgent to put your documents in place before it is too late. Find out what other directives to include in your plan to expedite the decision-making process and to ensure your family’s safety.
Estate Planning · October 22, 2020
You may think your pets are family, but the law considers them to be nothing more than personal property just like your cars, furniture, and electronic devices. In order for the law to treat your pets the way you want them to be treated, it is your responsibility to make that clear through estate planning. If you would like your pets to be taken care of properly after your death, you have to plan ahead to ensure their safety and care when you are not able to do it yourself.
Estate Planning · October 09, 2020
The CARES Act is a trillion-dollar program that provides direct economic assistance to workers, families, and small businesses. It is free money from the government that will hopefully relieve citizens of some of the financial strains brought about by the COVID-19 crisis. Qualified individuals will be given money thru direct deposit while business owners can apply for loans. Here’s everything you need to know to make the most out of this new law.
Estate Planning · October 02, 2020
The world is still shaking from the colossal impact of COVID-19 especially in the health sector. Now is a high time for you and for the family to make informed decisions regarding your health care needs. From the basics of a medical power of attorney to the intricacies of living will, here's what you need to know about advanced healthcare planning.