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If you have a family Trust, it may be serving your family and your finances well. On the other hand, the Trust may be needlessly costing your family a large amount of money now or in the future. In that case, you should consider dissolving the Trust. When establishing...
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...
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...
Trusts That Are Not Trustworthy Did you know that thousands of Minnesotans have Trusts that are ticking time bombs for their families? It's true. Let me give you an example. Many Trusts Need Fixing Mom and Dad may have set up a Trust in the 1990s and thought...
Taking Care of Our Mothers Many of us have elderly parents and grandparents who we care for. While it may be sending packages or phone calls from across the USA, or stopping by every day at lunch to check on them, we value our elderly mothers and grandmothers. It's no...
A Major Decision To Make When a person is informed by their medical professional that he or she is going to die soon, one of the major issues that he or she has to face is how to handle their bank accounts, retirement plans, real estate, and other assets. This News...
About 70% of People Never Complete Their Estate Plans Did you know that about 70% of people never complete their estate plans in their lifetimes? This can work fine for some straight couples because Minnesota estate planning laws presume to leave the inheritance to...