What is a Living Will or Health Care Directive in Georgia- Marietta Estate Planning Attorney As a Marietta estate planning attorney, I'm often asked, “what is exactly is a health care directive or living will? Basically, an Advance Healthcare Directive in Georgia, sometimes commo...

Marietta Will and Trust Lawyer: Should My Will Have Co-Executors? When making an estate plan and Last Will and Testament, many people have a difficult time deciding who should be the Executor of their estate. Oftentimes they will consider naming Co-Executors – two or more people wh...

Cobb County Wills and Trusts Lawyer: How to Handle Underage Beneficiaries Many grandparents wish to leave a legacy behind for their grandchildren; however, they may run into some issues if those children are underage. A Cobb County Wills and Trust lawyer can help you determine what...

Helping Mom or Dad Stay at Home | Marietta Elder Law Attorney Tips from a Marietta Elder Law Attorney for Selecting an In-Home Care Provider There may come a time when your parent is no longer safe living at home due to physical or emotional/social concerns. Instead of moving Mom...

What Happens When There are No Children to Provide Care to a Parent? As we age, it is likely that many of us will need help for at least some period of time with life's daily activities. (These include bathing, dressing, eating and using the bathroom.) And while we may not want to think muc...

What Happens When There are No Children to Provide Care to a Parent? As we age, it is likely that many of us will need help for at least some period of time with life's daily activities. (These include bathing, dressing, eating and using the bathroom.) And while we may not want to ...

Is This the Cure for Alzheimer's? | Elder Law Attorney in Marietta As an elder law attorney in Marietta, Georgia, I find news like this encouraging as many of my clients or their families have been affected by Alzheimer's. Researchers in Australia have been experimenting with a n...

Critical Retirement Decisions as Boomers Hit Age 70 Happy milestone birthday, Baby! 2016 is the year the first baby boomers will reach age 70. It is also the year for some critical decisions that will affect your retirement years, including reviewing your IRA estate planning option...

Feeling Squeezed in the Middle of a Generational Sandwich? How to Take Care of Yourself as You Take Care of Others Raising your kids, working, trying to take care of yourself, and now caring for an aging parent? That makes you part of the Sandwich Generation. You are not alone—al...

Marietta Elder Law Attorney on Age-appropriate legal documents (Part 2) In part one, we met Jim and Sandy, now age 65, and reviewed their need for age-appropriate health care and decision-making documents.  We left off with the question, “How can Jim and Sandy take steps to prevent...

Marietta Probate Lawyer on Locating Assets When a Loved One Dies As a Marietta probate lawyer, I'm often given the responsibility to help clients through the probate process after the death of their loved one. I can say from experience that when people lose someone they care abou...

Marietta Elder Law Attorney on Age-appropriate legal documents (Part 1) Twenty years ago, Jim and Sandy, age 45 at the time, went on their first vacation without their kids since they were married.   They had no planning documents in place, and had to scramble quickly to get a simp...

What You Can Expect in Your Marietta GA Probate Case Marietta GA Probate cases may vary from one to another, but there are several things that you and your Marietta Georgia probate lawyer can reasonably expect to happen during the process in most cases. Here a simple breakdown of s...

Top Tips From an Atlanta Will and Trust Lawyer to Avoid IRA Beneficiary Form Mistakes Putting together a solid estate plan with your Atlanta will and trust lawyer is an important...

Cobb County Parents! Before You Fill Out Your Child's Emergency Card This Year . . . DID YOU KNOW… That if you were to pass away or become incapacitated while your child is at school, the authorities may not release your kids to those you listed on the school emergency card? Wh...

Estate Planning for Same Sex Couples in Georgia | Georgia Estate Planning Lawyer The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide in a matter of days, or even hours, whether the Constitution requires states to allow same-sex marriage. While many same-sex couples have been awaiting a decisio...

What Happens to Your Assets in Georgia When You Don't Leave a Will? You may not need an Atlanta GA estate planning lawyer to make a will (although that isn't a wise decision), but what if you have no will at all? No one wants to think about their future demise, but death will be c...

Georgia Will and Trust Lawyer: Joan Rivers Estate Included a Pet Trust When a celebrity passes away, Georgia will and trust lawyers often watch for news of their affairs, hoping that the celebrity in question had a great estate plan in place.  With the recent loss of comedian Joan...

Incorporating Intangible Assets into Your Atlanta Estate Planning Will and estate lawyers in metro Atlanta are charged with a number of tasks when it comes to wealth management, retirement planning, and setting up wills and trusts.  For the most part, clients are concerned with th...

Marietta Elder Law: Talking Money Matters With Your Elderly Parents Marietta GA estate planning and elder law attorneys often find themselves advising adult children of the elderly on the intricacies of managing their parents' finances. While it may seem straightforward at first, the...

Three Marietta Georgia Estate Planning Myths: True or False Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Marietta Georgia estate planning lawyers eat, sleep, and breathe estate planning and see pretty much every kind of situation unfold. Clearly, individuals who have tak...

The Role of Georgia Wills and Trusts Lawyers When You Move to a New State Trusts lawyers in Atlanta have the important job of helping their clients create a legacy that is compliant with a number of different laws.  For the most part, these laws will vary from state to state.  Some d...

6 Reasons a Trust is Better Than a Will | Marietta Estate Planning Lawyer A will is one of the most basic estate planning documents in Georgia, and a Marietta Estate Planning Lawyer will tell you that every adult should have one to make sure that there is no question about what wil...

Atlanta Estate Planning Lawyer's Special Advice for Women A good Atlanta estate planning attorney is going to help you take a lot of things into consideration when putting together your plan.  Various factors influence your estate planning after all:  finances, children, age…But w...

Marietta Estate Planning Lawyer Helps You With Facebook's New “Legacy Contact” Feature As our lives become increasingly digital, more and more of the assets we accumulate are based in technology or created online. Estate planning attorneys in the Atlanta area have the important ...