To die intestate means dying without a will. The ability to specify the new owners of your property upon death is an important and powerful privilege that is granted to each and every citizen. When you die intestate, your property passes to those individuals whom the state government believes the decedent would have wanted to [...]
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Category Archives: Estate Planning
If a Trust Has an Expiration Date, Can it Be Extended?
There’s a trust, whether it was created by you or someone else, and you want to know if it can be extended so that it doesn’t expire. It depends entirely on the type of trust and how the trust was drafted. People often think that a trust is a trust; that there’s no difference between [...]
No Estate Taxes in 2010!!
That’s right, the estate tax is officially repealed for this year and this year alone. What this means is that if anyone dies in 2010, no matter how much money they leave to their heirs, no one will have to pay taxes on that money (there’s a caveat to this in Massachusetts, but we’ll explore [...]
Year-end Gifting for 2009
It’s December of 2009, a time to celebrate the holidays and thoughts of buying gifts dominate the holiday season. You might think about electronics or toys or gift cards, but it is the end of the year that some of you should be thinking about gifting money – large amounts of it. For those that [...]
Who should be your health care proxy?
One of the hardest parts of putting together an estate plan is deciding who should take over for you if you can’t care for yourself. Who do you want to be your health care proxy? Most people immediately think of their closest family member – whether that be your parents, your children or your spouse. [...]
Information to bring to your estate planning consultation
You’re ready to see your lawyer about having a will and possibly a trust document drafted. Before meeting with your lawyer, you need to spend a bit of time to gather all the documents necessary for your lawyer to give you sound and complete advice about what estate planning documents he needs to draft for [...]
Pet Trusts
Many of us have pets and we treat them as part of the family. As some of you might know, I have 2 rabbits and I treat them like my children. I care about my rabbits so much so that I keep a blog for them. So when you did your estate plan (assuming you [...]
Special Planning for Disabled Children
If you have a disabled child who’s receiving any federal or Massachusetts state government benefits, chances are, if you or anyone else leaves them an inheritance, they will become disqualified for those benefits. Any needs-based benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), MassHealth, or subsidized housing which imposes an income or asset limit on the [...]
Living Trust vs. Will – A Silly Debate
GUEST BLOGGER: VICTOR MEDINA – Victor is managing partner at Medina, Martinez & Castroll, LLC in Pennington, NJ. His focus is on estate planning and he authors an excellent blog at New Jersey Estate Planning. He has given me permission to repost one of his blog entries and one that is relevant in any state. [...]
Why fill-in forms suck! Part 1: Over the Counter formed Wills
This is a first in a series of posts I will be writing about why fill-in-the-blank legal forms suck. I will be focusing first on over the counter Last Will and Testaments that you can get at any office supply store. I went to one of the big office supply stores and bought a Last [...]
