Who Will Make Health Care Decisions On Your Behalf? A Health Care Directive is a document that directs medical treatment and medications you would want to receive when you become disabled and cannot express your own wishes. When You Become Disabled I say "when...
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Bill Peterson
Special Needs Trusts For Estate Planning-Minnesota Estate Planning Attorney
Parents With A Special Needs Child A family with a son or daughter that is dealing with autism, Down syndrome, Asperger Syndrome, or other special needs faces an enormous challenge for the care and support of the child. Proper care can be both expensive and time...
Estate Planning By The Book-Cinderella
What Happens If Your Spouse Remarries? Do you remember back when you were a child and Mom or Dad would read you a bedtime story? As you were tucked into bed, all sorts of characters and creatures would float through your imagination. Often, these stories held an...
Bill Peterson Inducted As Attorney In North Dakota
Bill Peterson, a Bloomington lawyer, was recently inducted as an attorney in North Dakota. Bill Peterson and Chief Justice Gerald W. Vande Walle Mr. Peterson completed the extensive application and background check processes that are required of a lawyer applicant....
Bill Peterson Inducted As Attorney In North Dakota
Bill Peterson, a Bloomington lawyer, was recently inducted as an attorney in North Dakota. Bill Peterson and Chief Justice Gerald W. Vande Walle Mr. Peterson completed the extensive application and background check processes that are required of a lawyer applicant....
What Is A Partition?
One of the more interesting legal tools I've used is called a partition. Simply put, a partition legally splits an asset or property amongst owners who are in a disagreement on how to handle it. Let me explain with a couple of examples. A Few Examples Travis and...
Non-Traditional Families Are the New Tradition
Times Have Changed Remember the TV sitcoms from the 1950s and '60s that are now being rerun on late night TV? The TV shows "Ozzie and Harriet" or "Leave it to Beaver" both told stories of families consisting of a husband and wife and their two children. These programs...
Is My Brother Misusing Money Belonging To Our Elderly Grandmother
Brother Takes Care Of Grandmother's Finances Mary lives in Saint Paul with her grandmother Marjorie, whom she has taken care of for the past four years. Her brother, Richard, offered to take care of Marjorie's finances so the grandmother signed a power of attorney for...
Senior Woman Wants To Protect Her Estate After New Marriage
Senior Woman Meets New Man Elizabeth is a senior woman. She is a very independent person and has been diligent in saving money throughout her entire life. Her husband Albert died five years ago. After his passing, Elizabeth was very lonely until she met Ronald, whose...
Are You Making These Mistakes On Your Social Security?
Half Of All Eligible Americans Are Filing For Social Security According to recent studies, half of all eligible Americans, apparently worried about the future of social security or the current economy, are filing for social security at the earliest they can, namely 62...