How organized are you? Have you updated or completed a will, Trust, medical or financial powers of attorney? If so, great! Now is the time to take the next step and address those issues that are part of dying, just a little less formal perhaps. For example, have you...

When it comes to planning for a family member that suffers from a mental or physical disability, it is important that you protect their government benefits after you are gone. If a beneficiary is receiving SSI and/or Medicaid, that beneficiary cannot have more than...

Many children these days have grown up in a single-parent household. The question is was one of your parents an absentee parent or more commonly referred to as deadbeat parent. When it comes to estate planning many young people do not feel that they are old enough or...

When we think about marriage and having children, we think about a long life, watching our children grow up and ultimately enjoying our grandchildren. Nobody expects to die suddenly at the age of 40 and have their spouse die of a heart attack at the age of 38 less...

When we think about parents, grandparents and children, we think that we will all die in the traditional order - oldest to youngest. Worse yet, we never think or imagine that we could be in a nursing home at the same time as our parents. However, as our parents...