by Lisa Adler | Aug 27, 2015 | Appointment of Healthcare Representitive, Incapacity Planning, Intestate, Living Wills, Power of Attorney, Trusts, Wills, Wills & Trusts
I just tweeted an article by a Boston financial planner, Dee Lee, who discusses the importance of parents with minor children getting their estate plans in place. I strongly feel that setting up an estate plan with protections for minor children is just as important...
by Lisa Adler | Aug 14, 2015 | Appointment of Healthcare Representitive, Estate Administration, Guardianship, In the News, Incapacity Planning, Litigation, Living Wills, Power of Attorney
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of having your now adult child get his or her estate planning documents prepared. The idea may seem unnecessary at first blush — your now 18 year old (or twenty-something) “adult” child has just reached...
by Lisa Adler | Jul 5, 2015 | Appointment of Healthcare Representitive, Incapacity Planning
It’s the stuff of parents’ worst anxieties when headed out of town for business or vacation, leaving their minor children at home in the care of a friend of family — their child is injured or becomes sick in their absence. Imagine, leaving with your...
by Lisa Adler | Sep 15, 2014 | Estate Administration, In the News, Trusts, Wills, Wills & Trusts
Yesterday I visited Indianapolis’s Cat Haven, a wonderful local non-profit that provides homes for abandoned cats. Many of these cats are elderly (10 years old or older), which gave me pause to consider how a cat that age would end up abandoned. It seems...
by Lisa Adler | Jul 11, 2014 | Appointment of Healthcare Representitive, Elder Abuse, Elder Law, Guardianship, Incapacity Planning, Litigation, Power of Attorney
Good planning for the possibility of future incapacitates, can decrease the likelihood of ever needing a guardianship. However, if documents are not in place, or even if they are, a guardianship can be needed in certain situations. What is an adult guardianship? An...