by Kathy Lane | Aug 7, 2016 | Estate Planning
As everyone probably knows by now, Prince died on April 21, 2016 and he didn’t have a will. You’d think that someone who had attorneys involved in almost every phase of his life and was worth more than $250 million would have done some estate planning, but evidently...
by Kathy Lane | Jul 31, 2016 | Guardian: Minor Child
If you’ve got young children, your days are filled with all sorts of activities related to them. You don’t have time for much else, especially not long term planning. However, ask yourself who will take care of your children if you and/or your spouse are not there? ...
by Kathy Lane | Jul 24, 2016 | Wills and Living Trusts
Even in the 1600s, people wrote wills to designate where they wanted their assets to go after their death. William Shakespeare’s will was signed on March 25, 1616. He left most of his estate to his daughter, Susannah Hall. However, toward the end of the will he...
by Kathy Lane | Jul 17, 2016 | Estate Planning
That’s the percent of Americans who do not have a will, according to a Google Consumer survey by USLegalWills.com. A recent Forbes.com article talks about some of the horror stories that occur when people die without putting an estate plan in place. Here are the...
by Kathy Lane | Jul 11, 2016 | Estate Planning
Although this actually happened in the UK, it could just as easily have happened here. Fred McGuinness owned a scrap yard. When he died at age 64 in 1987, he left everything to his wife Edith. He had four children: David, Freddie, Kevin and Denise. David claimed...
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