Seminar this Wednesday: Estate Planning for Blended Families

I’ll be presenting a seminar at the Orem Public Library on Estate Planning for Blended Families. When                 Wed, April 5, 7pm – 8pm Where                Orem Public Library, Media Auditorium (map) Description       Couples with blended families face special challenges when it […]

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Estate Planning Seminar at Orem Public Library

I’m presenting a seminar at the public library in Orem, Utah tomorrow, Wednesday, March 1st at 7 PM. The topic will be “Wills, Trusts, and Other Documents Necessary to a Good Estate Plan.” I’d love to see you there. Unfortunately, I just learned that the library’s calendar was hacked yesterday, so you’ll have to trust me […]

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Estate Planning Seminar at Pleasant Grove Library

I’ll be presenting a seminar on DIY — Do It Yourself — Estate Planning at the Pleasant Grove Library on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 7 PM. Come an enjoy the discussion. The address is 30 E Center St, Pleasant Grove. If you have a question about wills, trusts, and other aspects of estate planning, maybe […]

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Quote for the Day

“While many people have an inherent aversion to talking about both death and taxes, leaving a positive legacy is something we all care about. Unfortunately, numerous studies show that over 50% of Americans have no estate plan, no will and no medical directives. Why do so many people fail to properly plan for what happens […]

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Some Things I Learned Answering Questions on a Forum for Asking Legal Questions

So I sometimes forget that everybody’s smart, just on different subjects. For example, I don’t know much about physics. My teachers tried, but my head could only hold so much gravity and speed of light and such. Well, today I was online in an online forum where non-lawyers posed legal questions to attorneys. These were […]

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Estate Planning: Are You Prepared for Incapacity?

Not too long ago, estate planning was all about the estate tax tail wagging a sometimes reluctant dog. That was unfortunate for a number of reasons, among them, the focus on estate taxes caused planners to look beyond all those who had no estate tax problem. Likewise, those without that estate tax problem walked around unaware that […]

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DocuBank: Estate Planning and Health Care Documents at Your Fingertips

I recently became affiliated with DocuBank, a firm that allows my clients and me to store my and my clients to safely and securely store our estate planning documents, including our living wills, health care directives, and HIPAA authorizations. In turn, your and my doctor or the hospital in whose beds we might by lying […]

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Powers of Attorney, Living Wills, and Such: The Problem of Staleness

Remember when you were in your teens and still driving your parents’s cars? Every Friday night, it was the same routine, “Dad, Mom, can I use the car tonight?” And either the keys would come flying your way–or they wouldn’t. But when they did, you were off in a flash and out for the night. […]

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Directing Your Health Care with an Advance Health Care Directive–with the Stress on the Word Advance

I have an 87 year old client who was born, raised, and has lived in Wyoming her entire life–that is, except for the five or six winter months she has spent in southern Utah each of the last few years. She’s at that age when her health and her health care are becoming an ever more […]

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