Protecting Your Rights. Guarding Your Interests.
When you start working on your estate plan, you’ll likely focus on the traditional assets like bank, retirement and investment accounts and your properties. Of course, developing an advanced directive for your health care and choosing executors, trustees and those who...
A formal Physical Evaluation Board (PEB) hearing can have a huge impact on your military career and your future -- and you may not be happy with the board’s verdict. Whether it’s your fitness to serve that’s in question or your disability rating, you will lose your...
This is a question that family law attorneys hear all the time. The answer to that is usually that you can battle it out to retain ownership of your home. But the sub-context is that it may not always be in your best interests to do so. In most divorces, the two...
If you’re in a position where you don’t want to leave your estate to your children but would like to leave it to your grandchildren, you should know that there are excellent options available. You can skip the middle generation by using a trust. For example, using a...
If you're a member of a military family, then you've likely grown accustomed to the benefits that come with serving our nation. Some of these include on-base or subsidized housing and commissary privileges. You'll want to apprise yourself of what becomes of them once...
The purpose of creating an estate plan is to leave behind a meaningful legacy or protect the people that you love the most. Too many people keep putting the process off. Procrastination leaves some people without a plan when they die earlier than they thought they...
Have you ever heard the sad and sordid tales of those who won mega-million lottery jackpots — enough money to set themselves up for several lifetimes — but who somehow still died broke, sometimes only a few years later? Unfortunately, unfettered wealth has been the...
Being married to a narcissist is challenging, but divorcing one can be even more complicated. Individuals who are facing this situation need to ensure they prepare for the divorce process because the narcissistic individual isn’t going to make anything easy. There...
Texas has a huge military community, and many people in that community are married. While it's easy to hope that hard-working military men and women can obtain and sustain happy marriages, the truth is that many military marriages end in divorce. According to U.S....
If you want to reduce your estate’s risk of being taxed and to use your tax exemptions for the benefit of your spouse, there is one trust that could help. A spousal lifetime access trust is one that you create to benefit your spouse. This trust is irrevocable, which...
