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Silver Linings Amidst a Global Pandemic: How the Estate Planning Law Group of Georgia is Putting You First
The pandemic has made many law firms reconsider how they do business, and our firm is no exception. Even pre-pandemic, people put off estate planning because the idea of incapacitation and death are uncomfortable to talk about. However, amidst the global pandemic,...
Defensive Asset Protection
We live in a society that files some 70,000 lawsuits per day, many without merit. The high legal costs of defending a frivolous lawsuit often force defendants who have done nothing wrong to pay an out of court settlement. The first step to protection is insurance,...
Medicaid Planning with Trusts
Due to the high cost of nursing home care today, many seniors look to Medicaid for help covering the expense. In order to qualify for Medicaid in Georgia, the applicant’s income and assets must not exceed certain limits. As of this writing, the income cap for Georgia...
Handwritten Wills: Will They Hold Up in Court?
Before word-processing programs or typewriters were ever invented wills were handwritten and as long as they meet all of the legal requirements stipulated by the state, those executed in this format continue to be valid. Nonetheless, writing your will by hand opens...
How To Protect Your Adult Child’s Inheritance
When a client has a child who is under 25, I always recommend that the client leave that child’s inheritance in a trust until the child reaches a more responsible age. The goal is to protect those assets and prevent a young, inexperienced beneficiary...
The Importance of Naming Beneficiaries
Certain types of assets, such as life insurance, IRAs, 401ks and annuities, allow the owner to name a beneficiary. The asset will pass directly to the named beneficiary, outside of probate. When creating or updating an estate plan, making sure the beneficiaries are...
Even Superheroes Can Die Without a Secure Estate Plan in Place
If there were ever a list of cardinal sins in the world of estate planning, dying intestate would be at the top. To die intestate is to pass away with no legal will in place. Those who make this oversight subject their loved ones to the pains of the probate court and...
When Heirs Go Missing
One common goal for many clients is to ensure that, at death, assets are distributed to their intended beneficiaries without unnecessary delay or difficulty. As time passes, relationships may change and family members who were once close may drift apart. Beyond the...
Avoid Headache For Your Beneficiaries
When a Georgia Probate Court appoints an Executor or Administrator to be the personal representative of a decedent’s estate, the first requirement that person must meet is to publish a notice in the legal newspaper of the decedent’s county of residence. That notice,...
Loss and Grief: Navigating an Estate Plan After the Loss of a Loved One
Tragically, now is a moment when many are navigating the loss of a loved one. At the time of writing, 472,920 lives have been lost to Covid-19 in the US and that number only continues to grow. Navigating an estate plan in the shadow of a loved one’s passing is an...
Where’s The Will?
Imagine that your loved one passes away and a Will cannot be found. The consequences could be devastating. That’s why I always check that my clients have a safe place to store their new Will at the time of execution. Typically, when the location of a Will is not...
Digital Assets Complicate Estates
When most people think about providing for loved ones after death, an aspect of planning they miss is what happens to digital assets when the owner dies. Digital assets include online accounts, files stored on a computer or in the cloud, photo sharing sites, books and...
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