Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law Attorneys

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» Premarital Agreements and Other Areas of Law

Premarital agreements are hard to draft because they can deal with various areas of law. Estate planning and family law are the two biggies, but many different areas of property law can be affected. For instance, I recently was working on a premarital agreement, and the other attorney suggested that, if my client made contribution to his own retirement plan during his marriage, he had to make an equal contribution to his wife's retirement plan. Luckily I realized that the contribution limits for my client's retirement plan (a 401k) and his wife's plan (IRA) were not the same, so we were able to change the language in time. This is one of the reasons why I like working with a non-estate planner on a prenup, and if possible working collaboratively -- we can review the agreement from many different perspectives to make sure it "works."

» Understand estate plan before changing it

Q: I think my husband and I made a mistake several years ago concerning estate planning.

»  Trade In Your Social Security Check
Here's a ploy that lets seniors raise their long-term standards of living by paying the Social Security Administration tens of thousands of dollars.

» First Day of School

Posting is probably going to be light this week and next, as I adjust to my first quarter in business school. I'm only taking one class, but it's a doozy (business statistics).

I'll resist posting a picture of me in my "back to school" duds, lunchbox (or dinnerbox, since I'm an evening student) in hand, heading to the GSB.