How to overcome your estate planning blues: "it takes time, costs money, raises difficult family issues, and revolves around something most of us do not want to think about--death.".
IT'S A HEART-WRENCHING STORY of the disastrous consequences of failing to do even basic estate planning: The client of a financial advisor had a $2,500,000 estate and two children from his first marriage. However, he owned everything in joint tenancy with his second wife and had named her as...

Even more uncertainty about estate-tax apportionment: apportionment is an important but confusing subject, and two recent decisions interpreting apportionment waiver clauses in wills and revocable trusts under Illinois law make new and even more confusing law. This article analyzes these cases and provides drafting suggestions.
Estate-tax apportionment." Three words likely to cause any estate planning attorney to break into a sweat. Why? Because taxes can have a profound impact on an estate, and the estate-tax apportionment provision--which allocates the burden of paying the tax--can have a bigger dollar impact than any other part of...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Attorney to discuss estate planning at senior center There will be a free talk and discussion with a local attorney on estate planning at the Campbell Community Center, 155 High St., on Monday from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Topics...

Special needs trust: which kind is right for you?
Introduction. Many parents of children with disabilities are aware of the "third-party" Special Needs Trust--that is, one which they establish and fund, either during their lifetime (an inter vivos trust) or under their Will at their death (a testamentary trust). Such a trust is the standard estate planning device...

Porges, Hamlin, Knowles & Prouty, P.A.: specializing in corporate, business and estate planning law. (Advertising Feature: Legal Profile).
What does it take to cultivate and retain outstanding corporate business law relationships? "Meeting clients' needs in the most economical, ethical, personable and effective manner possible," according to senior principal Gregory J. Porges of Porges, Hamlin, Knowles & Prouty, PA., Attorneys at Law. With 12 attorneys, six of whom...

Ex post facto Medicaid "planning": may an agent or guardian shift the principal's assets for Medicaid planning purposes after the principal has become disabled? Yes - but doing so can be expensive.
In his article, judicial Medicaid Planning--Convincing the judge is easier than convincing DHS, which appears in the October 2007 issue of ISBA's Elder Law Section newsletter, Springfield lawyer Anthony J. DelGiorno observes that many senior citizens who would prefer their savings to go to their heirs and not to...

Anna Nicole Smith's will: a tragedy in many acts: it may be years before we know what becomes of Anna Nicole's vast estate. In the meantime, here is some informed speculation.
Ancient Greeks would add the tale of Anna Nicole's death to the ranks of Oedipus and Antigone. It would read something like this: Anna Nicole, after spending her life trying to find herself, finds happiness only in her son, Daniel. Later in life she becomes pregnant with...

Trust in a plan; Preparing for elderly health care.
Byline: Craig S. Semon Always independent and feisty, Therese Miller never believed she would be incapacitated someday and - despite the advice of her son, Worcester elder law attorney James A. Miller - she never wrote a durable power of attorney or a health care proxy. ...

The handbook to wills, funerals, and probate; how to protect yourself and your survivors, 3d ed.
9780816066698 The handbook to wills, funerals, and probate; how to protect yourself and your survivors, 3d ed. Hughes, Theodore E. and David Klein. Facts On File, Inc. 2007 354 pages $39.50 Hardcover KF755...

Get it together; organize your records so your family won't have to, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included).
9781413305630 Get it together; organize your records so your family won't have to, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included) Cullen, Melanie. Nolo 2007 $21.99 Paperback KF750 Cullen, a management consultant, provides a guide to collecting...