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Estate Planning

How to Preserve Harmony at the Family Cottage

Vacation Home Planning, Estate Planning, Estate Planning Attorney, LLC,

Owning a vacation home can create cherished memories for you and your family.  For many, these are thoughts of times together, playing in the sand at the beach, running after seagulls and the ringing bell of the ice cream truck.  For some it is the memories of carving fresh snow, gathering rosy cheeked around a crackling fireplace at the ski lodge to enjoy a warm beverage.  Whether yours is a beach front cottage or a ski cabin, the sentiments are likely the same.  The place holds sentimental value that is passed down from one generation to the next.

How Connecticut Medicaid Works in 2014

Estate Planning, Connecticut Medicaid, Title 19

Each year brings a new set of important figures for Medicaid (also known as Title 19) in Connecticut.  The new figures will only have meaning, however, if you understand how they work.  We provide the new figures with an example so you can understand how Medicaid works in Connecticut in 2014.

Here are the Connecticut Medicaid figures that apply in 2014:

Community Spouse Protected Amount (Maximum)

The Top 10 Things an Executor Should Do in the First Week After Someone Dies

Executor's duties probate estate assets

Your mother told you that she named you in her Will as Executor of her estate.  She trusts your judgment on financial and family matters.  Now your mother has died and you ask, "Why me? I have never been an Executor before."  Where do you begin? As Connecticut estate planning and probate lawyers, we prepared a handy list of what to do in the first week after someone dies.

How to Protect Your Grandchildren at Death

Transparent Trust

Most people who have adult children figure it is easiest to give an inheritance to your children outright with no strings attached. It is simple and clean. But there are downsides to giving to your adult children in a simple manner. Your grandchildren may never receive it. It could pass to the child’s spouse, the spouse could remarry, and all of the inheritance you gave to your child could go outside your family to the new mate of your child's spouse.

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