Home is where the heart is; it’s a sanctuary that harbors decades of memories and represents a significant part of your financial nest egg. For many seniors in North Carolina, their home equity is not just the value locked in their property, but a legacy they wish to leave for […]
Carolina Estate Planning Attorney and Founder Jeff Bloomfield appears on the Ask Dr. Mia Podcast to discuss the importance of estate planning as part of aging well. Dr. Mia is an expert geriatrician and has been interviewed and featured on CNN, NPR Morning Edition, and MedPage Today. During the winter […]
“I did not want to be one of those 35-year-old first-time parents who are too old to play with their kids,” my little brother said to me when he announced his wife was pregnant with their first child. They were in their mid-20s and I was 32 with no prospect of […]
In the estate planning world, the living trust has been all the rage for some time. Unfortunately, it often does not live up to the hype. Pushers of the living trust cite its ability to avoid probate—the court-supervised procedure for administering a deceased person’s assets. They claim probate is expensive […]
Selecting a guardian is one of the most emotional aspects of the estate planning process. It forces us to contemplate our own parenting style because in order to choose a guardian, we need to first choose what type of parents we want to be. It is not uncommon for parents […]