Asset Protection, Wills, Trusts, Estate & Business Planning
Things I learned while on Twitter: Thomas Jefferson owned a 22-shot rifle, a Girandoni air rifle. You can read all about these air rifles here. Pretty nifty rifle. Here’s a video explaining how the rifle works. Here’s another video (not as well done), this time showing the rifle in action. The implications of Jefferson owning […]
The 9th Circuit rules against concealed carry in California. The court said there was no constitutional right to concealed carry. I’m guessing we haven’t heard the last of this case. And for what it’s worth, the 9th Circuit hasn’t fared too well in the Supreme Court: The Justices [of the Supreme Court] have long had […]
Well, somebody’s on the ball. The people at Silencershop.com just announced some new technology they developed that will make complying with ATF 41F much easier for the responsible persons of trusts and entities to submit their fingerprints and photographs. Sometime before July 13th, when ’41F’ finally takes effect, Silencer Shop will ship out 300 fingerprint-scanning […]
Two things interest me about the two quotes below: First, that original material was written in 1764–in Italy–by Cesare Beccaria in his treatise On Crimes and Punishments. Yes, I know. It sounds like something right out of an NRA press release in response to yet another move by the [name your president] to implement by executive order more […]
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I really like the idea behind “The Positive Story Project,” a new monthly column at Wealthmanagement.com. Here’ the first three paragraph from the opening salvo: My goal in writing this column is to focus thinking within our community of practitioners—important players in the transfer of wealth to younger generations. And, with so much at stake for […]
The trusts I draft are almost always quite long–in excess of 40 pages. I sometimes wonder if they’re too long. And then I encounter a problem caused by a short, poorly drafted trust and wonder no more. Folks, you probably won’t discover what’s wrong with your trust or your parents’ trust until one of the […]
My 93-years-old aunt died last year. For a number of years leading up to her death, I visited her at home. Often I would check her mail box for mail, so I could save her a trip. Just as often, I found mail–a lot of it–from organizations asking for money to help the police, take […]
Mr. Crook is more like it. Folks, you can’t be too careful. Lots of good attorneys and financial advisors out there. Pick one of them. Stay away from the too-good-to-be-true guys and gals.
It doesn’t look a day over . . . : The estate tax turns 100.