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Help Your Young Adult Child Learn About Planning by Setting Up an Advanced Directive
Often, young adults are guilty of hiding behind the cloak of youth as an excuse for putting off important decisions and commitments regarding their future. More often, they procrastinate on these topics and the bewilderment and frustration of those that love...
Help Your Family for Generations to Come by Setting Up a Nomination of Guardianship
As parents, we love our children unconditionally — we often think about what will happen to them when we are gone one day. Within these thoughts are nightmares of possible abandonment that our kids may face, and those scenarios can scare us to our core. ...
Caring for Your Husband: How Can an Advance Directive for Health Care Work?
Planning for the future is clearly an important step for a successful life. Planning for the future means actively thinking about things like when to retire, how to save for retirement, where to live, the costs of prolonged and predictable health decline and...
You and Your Husband’s Estate Planning Needs: You May Outlive Him
In many families, the traditional role was for the husband to take care of insurance, retirement plans, estate issues and the like. For many, it is now the norm now that both parents, or spouses, take on equal responsibility for finances, planning, and care. And...
Women, Estate Planning and Military – What They Have in Common
Military professionals often have to face the prospect of austere training environments, combat, overseas deployment, and unconventional missions. Because of these risks, the need to have something substantial for family members who are left behind is...
How an Advance Directive for Healthcare Will Help If You’re Injured on Vacation
If you are planning a “me time’’ getaway this Fall now that the kiddos are back in school, having a sudden debilitating injury is probably the last thing on your mind. You are dreaming of palm trees and margaritas, not full body traction! That is fine — you should...
Who Will Make Your Healthcare Decisions if You’re Catastrophically Injured?
Many people do not have an estate plan if they become catastrophically injured. This is particularly true of those who are relatively young and free of health concerns. For some, perhaps most, the gamble may pay off. A person may stay healthy long enough for their...
How an Advance Directive for Health Care Will Help You if You’re in a Car Accident
An Advance Directive for Health Care is a scary thing to contemplate. It is the kind of easy form that no one wants to fill out. You have the fundamental right to consent to or refuse your own medical care. Most people guard that right jealously and do not waive it...
Getting Yourself and Your Family Ready for School: One Idea to Help Start Your Family Protection Plan Today
Summer has officially begun, and while many are hurling themselves full-on into summertime fun, you are getting yourself and your minor children ready for the next year of school. If you are a single parent, an aging parent of young children, or anyone with concerns...
Who to Appoint as Temporary Caregiver for your Child
For most parents, a question that might arise is “Who will take care of my child?” and of course, you think there is only one acceptable answer — yourself. In a perfect world, that’s right. In our society, however, anything can happen. You need to have a tough...