Living Trusts and the Issue of Mental Capacity
These days, hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone we know being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia. In...
25 April, 2017
These days, hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about someone we know being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia. In...
April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day, so we want to emphasize the importance of advance healthcare planning. This is a difficult conversation—no one really...
A recently remarried client came in to our Walnut Creek office to name his new wife and daughter as beneficiaries for some of the assets...
A woman, “Joan”, recently came into our Oakland office to talk to us about adding the names of her longtime partner and her daughter to...
We get a lot of questions from our clients about whether they really need a Living Trust or whether a Will, a simpler legal document, is...
This is the time of year when we wake up to a huge dose of reality. The holidays are over, spring is months away, and...
A recent article in the Mercury News focused on one of the topics that frequently surfaces around our offices. We call it Aging Parent Syndrome--what...
A comedian whose career spanned 40 years, Gene Wilder was 83 when he died in August from complications from Alzheimer's disease. He kept his illness...
Sam and Melissa had always relied on their mother’s strength, energy and selflessness. Happily, she enjoyed good health and her many interests for most of...
We talk a lot about the importance of creating a Living Trust—the legal document that details how your assets will be distributed when you die,...
It was October 2015 when California voters elected to become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with prescriptions from...
When gay, lesbian, and other proponents of same-sex marriages celebrated the US Supreme Court‘s landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, millions of Americans became eligible...