Category Archives for Family Law
Considerations Before Disinheriting a Child
Frequently Wills drafted for husband and wife with surviving children designate assets to flow from husband to wife if husband dies first and from wife to husband if wife dies first. Then, when the parents have both passed, assets would be distributed equally to their children. This testamentary plan works in most cases especially with stable […]
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If you find it more difficult in recent years to have your Power of Attorney recognized by banks and financial institutions than previously, it might help to know some of the history behind both changes in the law and in attitude. As one example, where documents designate your children as agents, the difference of one […]
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