While everyone needs an estate plan, demographics show that women in particular should take steps to address the matter. Living Longer & Needing Care On average, women live five years longer than men. This means women have to face a few realities: (1) they are more likely to…
NEW RULES FOR SAME SEX COUPLES Social security survivor benefits may seem like a relatively straightforward issues to understand. Indeed, it can be for the majority of people, but with the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that states must recognize the right of all couples, including same sex couples,…
It happens often enough that a parent for many reasons decides to disinherit one, several or all of his/her children. At the same time, this is often not a controversial decision and is just as common both understandable and predicable. Perhaps a person promised their estate to a specific child,…