What do the attorneys at Carolina Family Estate Planning Law Firm have to say about wills, trusts and estate and long term care planning?
Welcome! Pull up a chair and grab a frosty glass of lemonade. Prepare to benefit from our years of experience in researching legal briefs, journals, and case studies as we dive into the wild world of estate planning and administration!
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On Grief... These words have been helpful to me when I'm struggling to maintain the balance between being a professional and being a person, sharing clients' grief with them. -
I wish more people understood: Indecision is the Leading Cause of Roadkill... Not having a plan increases the likelihood that you will end up in a nursing home or assisted living facility. -
Legacy for a Nation (Part 2): MORE Estate Planning Lessons from Ben Franklin Here at Carolina Family Estate Planning, our team regularly helps clients build plans that protect their loved ones against future catastrophic events such as lawsuits, medical debt, bankruptcy, death, and divorce, while also including flexibility to adjust to changing or unforeseen circumstances. Why? Because unforeseen circumstances almost always arise in estate planning. -
Legacy for a Nation: Estate Planning Lessons from Ben Franklin Ben Franklin's estate planning documents carefully structure two philanthropic trusts designed to last exactly 200 years. He made two separate trusts-one to the city of Boston and one to his hometown of Philadelphia. Each trust contained 1,000 pounds, roughly equivalent to $110,000 today. -
Want a Better Life? Try Flexing Your Reticular Activating System The RAS may be partly responsible for a phenomenon I've previously discussed in this newsletter, where happy people seem to enjoy amazing luck, while for others, bad things just seem to keep happening to them. Happy people and unfortunate people may actually be experiencing the same things, but their RAS is looking for evidence to confirm what they believe to be true. -
The Tale of the Plan-Less Estate Planning Attorney I didn't have my own estate plan. I was young and healthy. I kept putting it off for another day. And then I found a lump in my breast... -
Adventures in Crucial Conversations In addition to these key points, there are numerous, critical life lessons in this book that hit me like a bus. Things like: respect is like air: no one notices when there is plenty of it, but when there’s not enough, it’s all you can think about. And the Four Methods of Decision Making. -
What About Cocoon in 2019? Flipping around the cable box the other night and came across Cocoon. It was one of the biggest films of 1985 and pretty much cemented Ron Howard as a -
Overheard at the Airport This really happened. It's kind of amazing what you involuntarily overhear at airports and how open people are in public as long as they're on their phone.