Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law Attorneys

» Podcast Status

A couple of things:

1. The podcasts don't take very long to record, but they take a while to write (no, for the most, I'm not improvising). I'll try to get the next one up this coming week, hopefully by Saturday at the latest.

2. You can now download the Death and Taxes podcast on iTunes. If you go to the iTunes store and search for "death and taxes blog podcast," you can find it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how else you can find it -- there's no "legal" category in iTunes, so I'm stuck in the "business" category. Anyway, you can listen to or download individual episodes, or subscribe to the podcast.

» Estate planning topic of forum

Leave A Legacy of the Mid-Willamette Valley will present a forum called "Estate Planning for Everyone" at 5:30 p.m. May 6 at Willamette University College of Law, 245 Winter St. via Statesman Journal

» Nabokov's Laura and the Disobedient Executor

I've talked before -- most recently, here -- about executors who don't obey the wishes of decedents, and refuse to burn their works. Vladimir Nabokov's case (which involves this scenario) has been in the news lately, in a two-part series in Slate entitled The Fate of Nabokov's Laura:

Part 1

Part 2

»  The Great 401(k) Escape
If the offerings in your employer's plan aren't so great, put your money elsewhere.

»  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.