“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 […]
On February 2nd, I was grateful for the opportunity to volunteer with the North Carolina Bar Foundation’s Wills for Heroes Clinic hosted by Wake Forest School of Law. Wills for Heroes provides first responders in our community with essential estate planning legal documents for free, such as Wills, Health Care […]
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 […]
When I meet someone for the first time and they find out I am an estate planning attorney, the person often volunteers a confident declaration followed by a less confident question that goes something like this: “I don’t have a Will because I don’t have much of an estate and […]