Tag Archives: Oldsmar Estate Planning Lawyer
Creditors, Death, and Protecting Your Child’s Inheritance
Few people move through this world completely free from debt, and debt does not automatically disappear when someone dies. Trying to preserve as many assets from creditors as possible is everyone’s goal, and this desire typically extends to even to a beneficiary child’s creditors, who may try to reach their inheritance in the event… Read More »
Methods to Prevent Inheritance Fights
Parents naturally desire their children to have close relationships so they can support one another during difficult times. When a parent dies, this closeness often makes the deeply-felt grief easier to bear, but even families that have close ties can develop bitter disputes over a parent’s estate plan. Unfortunately, these kinds of disputes can… Read More »
Why Single Seniors Are Most in Need of an Estate Plan
As a person enters his/her retirement years, unexpected and significant shifts in his/her social circles, both core and extended, occur more often than many people think. Moving to a new place, the death of a spouse, and divorce are all issues that can drastically alter a person’s support system and financial resources. In this… Read More »
Estate Planning Strategies for Second Marriages
Remarriage in the later years of life is not as uncommon as it once was. As people are living longer and healthier lives, people are more willing to enter into new marriages post-retirement. While this situation is great personally, it can create issues from an estate planning perspective. Children born in the first marriage… Read More »