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The Blended Family: Who is your Health Care Surrogate?
October 19th, 2016
Ultimately, you have the right to decide what type of health care you would like to receive. You also have the right to decide whom you want to make these decisions. Blended families present some unique challenges in these situations. To help that, c…
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Categories: Health Care Surrogates
Tags: Florida
Using a Trust to Provide Care for Your Elderly Parents
September 30th, 2016
Using a Trust to Supplement Care for Your Elderly Parents Estate planning is for everyone. Sometimes, young adults without children assume they don’t need to plan; everything will go to their parents anyway. But as your parents age, and as you…
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Using a Trust to Keep Money Safe from Young Adults' Bad Decisions
September 23rd, 2016
A well-designed trust should protect your hard-earned assets and ensure the best outcome for each beneficiary. Young adults can be vulnerable to their own bad decisions in money, relationships, and spending; a trust can help protect their financial f…
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The Blended Family: Considerations for Dividing Property
August 31st, 2016
Estate planning for blended families is a complex subject. The process may involve unique challenges because an absolute answer for determining how property should be handled does not exist. This post will give you an overview of some property distri…
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Why Single People Need a Health Care Surrogate
August 10th, 2016
It is of great importance for everyone to appoint a health care surrogate. If you are unable to make your own decisions, a health care surrogate is the person who steps in to make decisions for you. Discussing things in advance with your surrogate ca…
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Categories: Health Care Surrogates
Tags: Florida
Going to the Chapel? Going to get Married?
July 29th, 2016
Ah, weddings. Joy. Bliss. Love. The blending of two hearts. And two lives. And bank accounts. And assets. And one of those five reasons discussed earlier to update your estate plan. If you don’t update your estate plan before jetting off on the…
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Using a Trust to Protect Your Legacy from Your Children's Ex-Spouses
July 18th, 2016
A living trust is a useful tool for safeguarding your legacy and enabling the transfer of assets to a specific beneficiary. It can also protect against claims made by potential interlopers, such as a child’s ex-spouse. If your son’s or da…
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Talking About Hospice (Before It Is Needed)
June 22nd, 2016
Have you talked to your loved ones about your health care choices? Do they know what type of care you want if you are unable to tell doctors? This is the type of information that you need to share. And when confronting choices for end-of-life, having…
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Sharing Households: Two Adults Living Together
June 9th, 2016
Between 1990 and 2007, the number of non-married couple households increased by 88 percent. Today, most folks know at least one person who lives with a partner but isn’t married. The majority of couples nowadays live together before marrying. O…
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Five Key Times to Evaluate Your Estate Plan
May 27th, 2016
Life changes daily, it seems sometimes. Often, when those events take place that bring such change, we can be so focused on the change in circumstance, it’s easy to overlook how our estate plan might need to change too. Here are five key times…
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Attorney Jana McCreary
Houston Estate Planning Attorney Jana R. McCreary has been an attorney for over twenty years, a career move she made after working for over a decade with adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Graduating summa cum laud… Read More