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Protecting your assets is incredibly important. After you have worked so hard for everything you have, it only makes sense to have an experienced attorney on your side to help you keep what is yours safe from unscrupulous people and baseless, yet asset-draining, lawsuits. In this blog entry, we will discuss why it is a … Continued

While it can be uncomfortable thinking about your future, it is better to start as early as possible. What might seem like insurmountable hurdles can actually be small and manageable changes and goals that you can easily handle with enough foresight. In today’s entry, we will discuss a few tips that will help you get … Continued

Planning for what happens to your assets after you have died is an experience that most people don’t want to have to deal with more than once. If you have a will and you have beneficiaries listed on your life insurance policies or other accounts, you might think that you’re done with your estate plan. … Continued

You’ve worked hard to earn everything you have, and you don’t want it to disappear because of a lawsuit, a creditor, a nursing home, or Medicaid. While it may seem like you don’t have many options to protect your assets, that just isn’t the case. When you plan ahead, there are a variety of legal … Continued

Estate planning is one of those big tasks that many of us just keep putting off. Even when we know that we need to get to it in order to make sure that our assets go where we want them to, something else always seems to get in the way. In this blog entry, we … Continued

While most people are familiar with common asset protection practices like insurance, there are many ways to make sure that you maintain control of what you have worked so hard for. Whether you are planning ahead for long-term care or you want to make sure you are safe from certain kinds of lawsuits, a proper … Continued

Attempting to plan for long-term care can be difficult. There are many people out there offering advice about the best methods to protect the assets you have or to put them into the hands of the people you most care about, but unless they are a dedicated attorney with experience dealing with the complicated system … Continued

In our last post, we discussed one of the ways which people think they can help themselves qualify for Medicaid — giving away their money to friends and family. While it is true that the IRS allows you to give away money with no negative tax repercussions (up to $14,000 per year, to as many … Continued

The cost of assisted living and nursing home care continues to skyrocket as a large segment of the population grows older. There is no reason to suspect that this trend will reverse any time soon, and we can all benefit from making sure that we are doing everything we can to plan for our care … Continued

The world of asset protection and estate planning can seem like a daunting one. There are so many ways to handle your assets that finding the strategy that works best for you can almost feel impossible. It is for these reasons that we recommend hiring an attorney who specializes in this field. As with anything … Continued