A colleague of mine, John Robbert of Chesapeake Law, was kind enough to share with me and all my friends in the Maryland State Bar Association who were interested a copy of his article concerning end-of-life planning. It is a very good article and worthy of sharing publicly. You can open, read, and save a …
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More than once as a LifeCycle Lawyer, I have had a client come in to my office to sign a Last Will and Testament one day and try to kill themselves the next day. While some clients try and fail to at committing suicide, one was completely successful eating his shotgun while sitting at one …
A very wise man once said, “More important than discovering who does what where and when is proactively learning why they do it.” So, before we go too far beginning with the end of disaster contingency planning in mind, let us seek to understand why we should even worry about disaster contingency planning in the …
While sitting in the airport Sunday, waiting for a plane, a fellow passenger reading his newspaper rhetorically exclaimed, “How can a man do that to his mother!” He was discussing the indictment the Friday before of John Jerome O’Hara by a federal grand jury inLexington, Kentucky being briefly reported in the Washington Post. The article …
Many different situations drive people to do estate and asset protection planning. Sometimes, someone will suddenly get a bad diagnosis and realize they don’t even have a will. Sometimes, the probate hassles they’ve watched their friends’ families go through makes them see their lawyer to get a will, some powers of attorney, and a revocable …
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People buy and sell many things during their lifecycles. And, quite often, such purchases and sales go awry and the dispute devolves into a “(s)he said (s)he said” argument. One of the most common problems for which people ask LifeCycle LawyersTM help is with a sale gone bad because the terms were not spelled out …
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People and their pets are usually inseparable until they absolutely have to be separated. Disaster, disease, disability, and death don’t just impact your human family, they impact your pet family as well. Including pet trust provisions in your will, your revocable living trust, or a separate trust is the best way to be sure your …
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Death comes in many ways, shapes, and forms. My grandfather died quietly of a heart attack, sitting in Little Rock’s Razorback stadium, watching a football game. My father “called it a life” on a catheterization table seconds after sending his doctors to discuss replacing all of his cardiac vessels with his wife out in hall. …
Very few dying people want to be a burden on those they leave behind. But every so often, there’s this crazy old cat lady on the hill. You know the one. She has no family or friends to speak of, to, or with. She lives alone in her big old house located down a road …
Life comes at you fast; addiction, disease, and disability come at you faster. Effective LifeCycle Planning Can Help You Deal with Life’s Issues Better Do you have a family member who may be addicted to something (alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, or whatever else) or suffering a medical or mental disability (including undiagnosed or untreated schizophrenia, …
