Redmond Office Law Blog

When it comes to acting as an estate planning attorney, many of us find ourselves asking our clients, “how do you want to leave your assets in the event of death and who will manage your affairs in the event of incapacity?” Many times the clients turn the table on the attorney and ask, “what […]

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Estate Planning for a traditional beneficiary can raise a lot of questions for families. For example, at what age should my children inherit from me, should I divide my assets equally between my children or should I provide for grandchildren and how should I plan for a child with special needs? For many, those questions […]

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Hardship loans are a common occurance these days.  Many of my clients are doing workouts because they are lowering their payments or catching up with missed payments, but you need to be careful.  Many people are relying on these workouts and the banks are not coming through for people who need help.
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Recent reports have advised us that a large portion of individuals are employed by small businesses.  Many of those small businesses are family owned businesses that may have been started by Mom and Dad and employ one or more children.  When it comes to Estate Planning, your business succession plan should be addressed in your […]

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Danielle will be presenting on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009 on the topic of Estate Planning.  This presentation will be held at SENIOR SERVICES, INC. located at 918 Jasper Street in downtown Kalamazoo.  The program begins at 2:00 p.m. and will also feature other local experts from Langland Family Funeral Homes, Senior Services, Inc. and First Community Federal Credit […]

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In a day and age where scams seem to be at an all time high, many people would not think that individuals or representatives from a legal firm would mislead them.  However, in a recent Ohio case, an estate planning firm was fined $6.4 million for running what the State of Ohio called a “Trust […]

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