Civil Procedure: Injunction Reversed
Although temporary injunctions can be useful legal remedies, enabling actions to be paused while the issues at stake are being assessed and resolved, specific rules of civil procedure must be carefully followed whenever an…
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Sticky Notes Are Not An Estate Plan
Tony Hseih died without a will in 2020, leaving behind an estate estimated to be worth hundreds of millions. The entrepreneur, most famous for leading Zappos, was known for his progressive ideas about happiness…
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Inheritance: Dividing The Money Evenly?
No, parents do not have to divide their assets evenly among their children when creating a will. Although it is common to do so, there are no laws entitling each child “to get their…
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Special Needs Grandchildren?
If you have grandchildren with special needs and hope to leave them money when you die, you’ll want to take extra care with your estate plan. Your good intentions could inadvertently result in them…
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What Exactly Is a Trust?
Whether you are up to your elbows in estate planning, or just trying to figure out how to get started, the terminology can get a bit fuzzy, hard to digest and keep straight. Short…
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Disrupting Estate Planning: Wealthtech?
How will $68 trillion in wealth be passed along to Millennials and Generation X over the next twenty-five years? Wealthtech! That’s the disruption experts say is underway as legal, financial and tech innovators work…
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Bunny Wailer: Estate Conflict?
Before reggae legend Bunny Wailer, aka Neville O’Riley Livingston, died earlier this year at the age of 73, he had made a will and appointed co-executors. In the will, he named each of his thirteen…
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Get The Facts: Estate Planning?
What happens when you add procrastination and misinformation together? For many of us, the combination equals failure to make an estate plan—and loved ones in disarray when we die. Estate planning experts have lots of…
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Appoint a Digital Executor?
With more and more of our lives taking place in the digital realm, our valuables are no longer limited to just those we can touch. Digital assets now require explicit attention during estate planning….
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