Monthly Archives: September 2025
The Pitfalls Of Letting Your Children Inherit A House Jointly
Sometimes you miss the days when your children were little. You feel the pangs of nostalgia when you see a parent wrangling a toddler into the child seat in a shopping cart while the toddler’s older sibling runs through the cereal aisle grabbing every colorful box that promises a cavity in every bite. You… Read More »
How To Disclaim An Inheritance
Estate planning lawyers warn their clients not to use their wills as a tool to micromanage their families from beyond the grave. If the testator stipulates that his children can only inherit from him if they marry within the family’s faith community, for example, everyone loses. If the children follow their father’s wishes, their… Read More »
How Many Lawyers Does It Take To Manage A Trust?
It is possible to handle your estate plan by yourself without hiring a lawyer. Estate law is one of the areas of law designed to make it easy and inexpensive for individuals to have recourse to the court system when they need it. By nature, your estate plan must continue to do its job… Read More »
5 By 5 Power In Trust Provisions
You have probably heard that there are only two kinds of trusts, namely irrevocable trusts, where the grantor cannot interfere in the workings of the trust after establishing it, and revocable trusts, where the grantor can modify the terms of the trust instrument as many times as he or she chooses; revocable trusts automatically… Read More »
