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For those who want to avoid the court-controlled process that takes place after a person’s death (known as “probate”) — using a Revocable Living

BEDFORD - The Lawrence County Commissioners and the Miss Indiana Centennial Committee on Monday, November 27, at 4:30 p.m. celebrated the 100th anniversary of the setting of the Miss Indiana statue atop the Lawrence County Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument. The setting of Miss Liberty is ...

Terri Lee Hoffman was a New Age Aunt Bee whose gospel attracted many followers. But some of those believers ended up on a dark, twisted path that led to violent death—and the enrichment of their guru.

Holidays bring families together but can also drive people apart. My clients frequently express to me how a desire to speak to their family members at this time of the year about the decisions they have made (or are in the process of making) when we are working on their estate planning documents.

Several estate planning documents have similar and easy to confuse names. Estate planning legal matters are already confusing enough, so it certainly does not help to have similar names for related but completely different documents. Let’s take some of the mystery out of two similarly named documents now: the “Last Will & Testament” and the “Living Will.”

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Many of our clients in North Idaho are “snowbirds” who spend winters somewhere warm. Often this means a person owns assets in more than one state. If this is true for you, then you need to pay special attention to certain decisions in your estate planning documents such as Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, and Advanced Medical Directives. If you are headed somewhere warm to spend the winter months, you will want to be sure you have everything in order before you go. So, now is the opportune...

None of us escape life’s disruptions. Life can go along as planned until we are faced with a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease or the death of a loved one. To face this reality of life, Dan and Nancy Nicewonger encourage us to make plans and anticipate what conversations are needed ahead of the events […]

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