Do you have a family member who is caring for a loved one? These caregivers often don’t recognize when they are in over their heads, and often get to a breaking point. After a prolonged period of time, caregiving can …
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Is Equal Fair
You have worked hard over your entire lifetime to accumulate what you have. You should be able to give what you have, to whom you want, when you want, the way you want. However, your children may think differently and …
Health Care Powers
I continue to get questions regarding estate planning basics. So I will continue with a discussion about making health care decisions. Have you ever thought about who would make your medical or mental health treatment decisions if you could not …
How Much Do I Need to Save in Order to Retire
Are you planning for or near retirement? If you are in your prime earning years, you should also be thinking about retirement. It is a good time to start thinking about and planning for retirement when you enter the work …
Saving for College
You want your children or grandchildren to be successful. You want them to be self sufficient. You want them to have a good start in life and you think college is one way to do it. But college is expensive. …
Do It Yourself Plans & Bad Advice Can Wreak Havoc
If you are like 70% of Americans, you have no formal estate plan. However, you may have attempted to do your own estate planning with joint ownership, beneficiary designations or quit claim deeds after receiving free advice from others. Although …
Con Artists Come in all Shapes and Sizes
As you get older, your physiological systems slow down. This is natural. It is part of the aging process. Not only are you not able to get around physically as well as you once did, you may not be as …
Medicaid Estate Recovery in Michigan – A Four Month Report
For a long time, Michigan was one of the few states that had no Medicaid lien laws or Medicaid estate recovery. In 2007, after a long and arduous journey, Michigan’s estate recovery statute was finally passed by our legislature and …
Do You Need To Update EP
You may have a will, financial and health care powers of attorney and also maybe a trust. You may be wondering how often your estate planning documents should be updated. Or you may question whether your existing estate planning documents …
Planning for Unexpected Events
You may think of estate planning as death planning, but it is much more than that. Estate planning includes lifetime planning. The first component of estate planning is: I want to control my property while I am alive and well. …