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Bone-Chilling Tales of Nursing Homes That Offered Residents No Protection Against the Florida Heat
One of the most enjoyable things about spending your retirement in Florida is going outside early in the morning to tend your garden or take a walk or a bike ride by the beach. Once the clock strikes ten, or sometimes even nine, it is time to go back inside to the air conditioning… Read More »
The Latest Controversy Surrounding Tiger King Is an Allegedly Forged Will
Tiger King was one of the most popular Netflix series for binge watching during the long weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, but besides cabin fever, people’s motivations for watching it were various. From an estate planning perspective, the most interesting thing about the stranger than fiction story of Joe Exotic is not the… Read More »
Some Seniors Who Want to Keep Their Independence While Staying Close to Family Choose Granny Pods
Planning for your retirement years involves a lot more than just deciding what to do with your money. You must make difficult decisions about how the process of moving to a nursing home or assisted living facility will work if you need it, as well as deciding who you trust to make financial and… Read More »
When Trusted Family Members Ruin Seniors’ Finances
When most of us hear about financial abuse of seniors, we usually think of a charming new friend of paramour who moved in on a lonely, vulnerable elderly person and swindled the victim out of his or her life’s savings or sweet-talked the victim into changing his or her will, thereby cheating the decedent’s… Read More »
Maintaining Legal Domicile in Florida Even If You Head for Higher Ground During the Pandemic
Florida is a paradise for seniors, except when it isn’t. There is a reason that so many retirees spend the winter in Florida and the summer in a more temperate area. The summer heat, lightning storms, and hurricanes are enough to make anyone not want to spend the whole year in Florida. The COVID-19… Read More »
Do You Need to Hire a Lawyer for Probate?
Being responsible for someone else’s finances is stressful, no matter the circumstances. Whether you have just taken on a new managerial job at a company that is struggling financially or if you have just married someone who still has a lot of financial unfinished business from a previous marriage, you feel compelled to solve… Read More »
Lonely Grandmother Sent More Than $200,000 to Fraudsters She Met on Dating Websites
The first time your parents vetoed one of your decisions when you were a teenager, you probably felt motivated to become financially independent of them so that you could make your own decisions about money, relationships, and almost anything else. As painful as it is to watch young people live beyond their means or… Read More »
The Various Ways That Family Members Can Jointly Own Real Estate Property
Whether it is better to own your property in the form of currency or real estate is not a question with a one-size-fits all answer. Likewise, when it comes to getting something of value from a family member, some people would prefer to get cash, and some would prefer to get a house or… Read More »
Taking Care of Elderly Parents at Home Is Emotionally and Financially Stressful for Families
You have many reasons to be grateful. Your life and health have lasted long enough to enable you to enjoy a relationship with your grandchildren, and maybe even with your great-grandchildren. You own your own home. You have done a lot to help your descendants be happy and financially stable. As uncomfortable as it… Read More »
What Happens If You Don’t Specify a Beneficiary on Your Life Insurance Policy?
Life insurance policies are an inexpensive way to ensure that your family will have at least some financial stability after you die. If you bought a life insurance policy when you were younger than retirement age, you were probably impressed by the low cost of the policy compared to the amount of payout, and… Read More »
