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Planning for the Future: Managing Your Healthcare with Advance Directives

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A comprehensive estate plan provides how your estate is handled in the event of death or incapacitation. It also establishes your desires for how medical and life-sustaining treatments are communicated and administered. ...more

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The Importance of Estate Planning

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When we think about making plans to secure our future, generally the discussions revolve around education, career, family, and finances. Creating a comprehensive estate plan, including effective advanced directives, can elude...more

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Planning for College? Why Your 18-Year Old Needs a Durable Power of Attorney

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Reaching the age of majority is a critical milestone in a young person’s life. It brings with it important changes and new freedoms. The newly minted adult may now vote, enter into contracts, join the military and marry....more

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Estate Planning for Young Adults

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Estate planning is the tool that allows individuals to control how their assets and lives will be managed in case of their incapacitation or death. One common misconception is that estate planning is solely for the wealthy....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Power of Attorney for My Incapacitated Parents – What Are Our Options?

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A sensitive and often complicated conversation that individuals have with their aging parents relates to protective measures in the event of the parents’ incapacity. A power of attorney and the variations of such concerning...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Understanding the Terms of Health Care Directives

Estate planning experts usually cite the need to include advance health care directives in a comprehensive estate plan. But there’s often disagreement about the legal names given to those directives and their optimal use,...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Top Estate Planning Considerations for Closing Out 2020

2020, a year full of uncertainty, is coming to a close. Our estate planning and tax team is here to help remove some of the uncertainty and speculation prevalent in today’s environment. Many people believe the holiday season...more

Lowndes

Three Documents You Must Have to Protect Your Family During the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond

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Naturally, COVID-19 has led to a large degree of uncertainty, which emphasizes the importance of having your estate plan in place – or establishing one if you have not done so already. ...more

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

Estate Planning In The COVID-19 Era

In uncertain times like these, COVID-19 reminds us to be prepared for the unexpected. Do you have an estate plan in place? If so, now is the time to review those plans and make any necessary updates. If not, consider...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Advance Directives for Health Care – Make Your Wishes Known

People have a right to make their own health care decisions. Advance Directives for Health Care (ADHC) can help people communicate their treatment choices if there comes a time when they can’t tell what they want. This...more

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An Important Message during Difficult Times

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Friends and colleagues- My thoughts are with you during these uncertain times. First and foremost, I want you and your family to stay safe and healthy. Social distancing is a small price to pay for guarding the wellness...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Insight on Estate Planning - February/March 2020: What are the benefits of a durable power of attorney?

No one likes to think about being incapacitated, but the threat is real. This raises some troubling thoughts about how one’s personal and financial affairs will be handled in the event they’re incapacitated. This article...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

What Is the Difference Between a Living Will and a Do-Not-Resuscitate Order?

It is a very good idea to create advance directives in order to plan for the possibility that you may one day be unable to make your own medical decisions. In doing so, there can be confusion about the difference between a...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

McNees Insights – Estate Planning: March 2019

Estate Planning for Real Estate Owners - Estate planning for valuable, illiquid assets presents a variety of challenges. With respect to real estate, planning challenges can be compounded due to fractional ownership, outside...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Advance Directives: Living Wills, Health Care Proxies and Powers of Attorney

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We’re coming to the end of the school year and into the days of summer and no one wants to think about anything too “heavy”. It is, however, important to have advance directives in place. All adults (including kids over 18...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Estate Planning Pitfall - You haven’t coordinated your health care directives

The best-laid plans can go astray. For estate planning purposes, the main complication as a person grows older may be the condition of his or her health. This brief article details two health care directives and explains why...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

National Health Care Decisions Day

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National Health Care Decisions Day, for its 10th anniversary, is being “celebrated” all week – April 16 – 22, 2017. The event focuses on making health care planning, including healthcare proxies and advance directives/ living...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Four Steps to Take Right After an Alzheimer's Diagnosis

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, it is important to start planning immediately. There are several essential documents to help you once you become incapacitated, but if you don't already have...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Alert: What is MOLST and Do I Need It?

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You may have heard about Connecticut’s pilot program for Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (“MOLST”) and wondered what it is and whether it impacts your estate plan. Similar programs, such as Physician Orders for...more

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New Online End-of-Life Planning Tool Now Available to NC Citizens and Health Care Providers

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A new tool is now available for North Carolina citizens and health care providers that will help everyone understand end-of-life health care planning options and processes available under North Carolina law. The new website...more

Baker Donelson

Estate Planning Considerations: Documentation and Peace of Mind

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With the introduction of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Act), the world of estate planning has been injected with a dose of certainty after more than 10 years of uncertainty as to federal estate, gift and...more

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