Primary care law is the new general practice. The American Bar Association magazine Law Practice Today just published an article on Primary Care Law becoming a valid specialty. It’s nice they’ve “newly discovered” the way I’ve been practicing law since 1993. Let me tell you how I became a LifeCycle Lawyer. I met my wife …
Slips and Falls are Huge Problems In the U.S., more than 8.7 million people are injured from slip, trip and fall incidents every year, according to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The most common injuries are joint injuries, typically to the wrist, elbow, shoulder and knee. Back injuries also occur often. Many …
Never Let Slips or Falls Become Your LifeCycle Events! Read More »
People often try to follow our advice to use a personal financial planner to help them with their finances. But then, they get held up choosing one and getting started. Oftentimes, they just don’t know how to find and pick one they think is competent enough to make them feel confident in their choice. So, …
Two of the most certain things to happen in life are the deaths of one’s parents. Soon after this catastrophe occurs, if you have not done an appropriate amount of LifeCycle planning, you’re going to start wondering, “What did mom [or dad] leave us?” Here are some first places to look to try to find …
My Mom or Dad Just Died! How Can I Find Out What Assets He or She Had? Read More »
There is a way to find out if your relative left an unknown insurance policy. A lot of our LifeCycle clients have spouses, parents and other relatives who die without doing appropriate lifecycle planning. Sometimes, spouses, grandkids, kids, nieces, nephews, and such get estranged from their grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles. And then, some older …
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Apartment roommates often disagree and sometimes they disagree so much that one of them wants to get out of their lease. Here’s how to do that the right way. Most co-tenants almost never sign any written agreement spelling out their obligations to each other as co-tenants. They almost always do, however, sign a legally-binding, written …
Almost Any Roommate Can Quit a Subsequent Month-To-Month Lease With Reasonable Notice Read More »
People’s lifecycles often include children being stupid. Here is one story contained in the recent Maryland Court of Special Appeals opinion in the case of In Re: S.K. that should give anyone pause, both parents and teenaged children alike. S.K., a 16-year-old girl sent two friends a one-minute digital video file of herself giving a …
Images Of Your Sexlife Are Just Plain Stupid, Sharing Them Is Even More So Read More »
What are Disability Trustees and Trusts? Some people for whom we do LifeCycle Planning, for a variety of reasons, cannot or should not be left in control of their own money. Sometimes, some people are just irresponsible spendthrifts or have other bad habits or addictions. Other times, people suffer from a disability that prevents them …
People Can Save Big Using Specialized Disability Trustees and Pooled Disability Trusts Read More »
Board governance of nonprofit organizations has increasingly become more akin to board governance of for-profit corporations after Enron’s debacle produced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). While no federal nonprofit laws similar to SOX have been passed, the IRS forms and instructions for the non-profit Forms 1023 and 990 are playing a major role in …
A Nonprofit Organization’s Board’s Rights, Duties, Responsibilities, and Liabilities Read More »
Nonprofits are a LifeCycle Trifecta! Remember that Chance card in Monopoly that reads, “Congratulations! You’ve been appointed to the Board of Directors. Please, pay $500”? How about the saying, “No good deed goes unpunished”? Or the favorite doctor’s soothing saying, “Relax, this won’t hurt a bit.” Well, speaking from a lot of education, training, and …
I’m Now a Board Member of a Nonprofit Corporation. What’s My Duty and Liability? Read More »
