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There comes a time in every business owner’s life when they are ready to prepare for retirement. There comes a time in every business owner’s life when they are ready to prepare for retirement. In some cases, selling the business is a no-brainer, other times people...
Don't leave your children's future to chance. Estate planning helps you create a plan for your children. Growing up her mom wasn't around much, so she and dad went hunting, fixed cars and made memories. Later in life dad remarried a woman with her own children. Still,...
What's next after selling the family farm? Isn't it beautiful? There we are, my dad, my daughter and me. My mom's not there, except in our hearts and it was her love of horses that started it all back in the 1960's. Of course there are the horses, ones we bred,...
Holiday Reconnecting In the 1950's, 60's and 70's there was a group of seven or so families connected in various ways, kids together at dance classes, long-time friends, new friends from bridge, neighbors old and new. They were called "The Gang". The kids of various...
Caring for the Elderly with Proper Planning Getting together with family over the holidays is always an adventure. You cart food and people to a central location for a day of food and forced (often fun) family confinement! But did you notice that Aunt Edna is just a...
Families often need me to be the one that asks the emotional questions that they can't. That is my role. It's a part of taking care of my clients. When we complete a Health Care Directive we talk about what their personal feelings are on their end of life choices. It...
Advice on dealing with Dad I regularly counsel clients who employ me to give them sound advice, and I do. I am a professional, highly rated, well-respected estate planning attorney who is regularly referred by my clients. I have fiduciary responsibilities. Then...
Shouldering Parental Responsibility "I do everything for everyone, but I don't do anything right" is a complaint I recently heard from a friend in the "Sandwich Generation". Her college age kids are flexing their freedom, challenging decisions, complaining about mom's...
Legal Changes for Child Safety If you ever worked on your family’s farm growing up, or helped out your grandparents, aunts and uncles, or neighbors on their farms you know how much work it takes to make a farm successful. Everybody needs to pitch in and do what needs...