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11 Aug The Risk of Do-It-Yourself Estate Planning

Posted at 01:00h in Estate Planning

THE RISK OF DO-IT-YOURSELF ESTATE PLANNING By Jacqueline Ferris MacLaren, Esq. If you have not used Legal Zoom, I suspect you have at least heard of it. Legal Zoom is the leading legal service web site on the internet. Among its legal services, Legal Zoom provides do-it-yourself...

11 Aug Don’t I Just Need a Simple Will?

Posted at 00:52h in Estate Planning

Estate Planning Overview – Don't I Just Need a Simple Will? Estate planning is a process that allows you to provide for the management of your assets when you are no longer able. Good estate planning is more than just a simple will. While a simple will...

11 Aug Equine Business or Hobby?

Posted at 00:48h in Equine Law

Equine Business or Hobby? If an equine business engaged in by an individual, partnership or subchapter S corporation shows a profit in 2 years within a 7 year period (beginning with the 1st profit year), it will be presumed to be engaged in for profit, with...

11 Aug What is a Revocable Living Trust?

Posted at 00:38h in Estate Planning

What is a Revocable Living Trust? There are various different types and forms of a trust. The most widely utilized is a revocable living trust, which is a trust created during your lifetime that can be terminated or changed during your lifetime, as long as...

11 Aug What are Healthcare Directives?

Posted at 00:37h in Estate Planning

What are Healthcare Directives? Health Care Directives consist of a Living Will and a Health Care Power of Attorney. The purpose of a Living Will is to document your wish that life-sustaining treatment, including artificially or technologically supplied nutrition and hydration, be withheld or withdrawn...

10 Aug What is a Financial Durable Power of Attorney?

Posted at 00:39h in Estate Planning

What is a Financial Durable Power of Attorney? The durable power of attorney allows the person you name, your attorney-in-fact, as the person to act in your place for financial purposes when and if you ever become incapacitated. The durable power of attorney’s authority only...

10 Aug What is a Will?