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Does Your Estate Plan Account For Family Caregiving Obligations?
Estate planning is about more than just financial decisions. It is possible to spend years changing your mind about how much money you will need to save so that you will have enough if you use four percent of your savings each year, and even longer trying to find an alternative to the four… Read More »
The Biggest Obstacle To Your Real Estate Empire Could Be Sitting At The Head Of Your Dining Table
Years later, it is possible to laugh about how meddlesome members of your family interfered with your plans for your wedding; one can have a sense of humor about a pescetarian mother-in-law who went behind your back to tell the caterers to replace the steak tartare appetizer with sashimi or about the wannabe celebrity… Read More »
How To Stop Your Memorabilia Collection From Becoming A Burden To Your Family During Probate
People might earn money to impress other people, and they might spend it on the most expensive real estate, décor items, clothing, vehicles, and jewelry, but memorabilia collections exist for the enjoyment of the collector. Some of the items in your memorabilia collection may be very valuable, but the fun of collecting is the… Read More »
Estate Inventory During Maryland Probate
Your work as the personal representative of a deceased family member’s estate is probably not as difficult as you fear it will be, but it still requires organizational skills and a considerable investment of time. You probably will not have to deal with disputes about undue influence or long-lost distant relatives coming out of… Read More »
Estate Planning, Washington DC Style
Did you hear that millennials are leaving the DC area in droves? There’s no one left here but us. Are we really so old that the Millennium, at which time we were already young adults, was more than 20 years ago? Where did the time go? Our hair is turning gray, and our children… Read More »
Choosing A Business Entity Type Is An Act Of Estate Planning
Estate planning lawyers always say that estate planning is about planning for life, not just planning for death. If you love your line of work so much that you never want to retire, then spending your days playing golf or walking on the beach probably does not sound appealing enough to motivate you to… Read More »
Non-Compete Clauses Are Overrated, Especially For Small Businesses
When you operate a small business, you have so many responsibilities that require your undivided attention that airtight employment contracts are not a priority. You would like to offer your employees a written contract, because doing so gives you an advantage over competing businesses with which those same employees might apply for jobs. When… Read More »
Complying With Maryland’s Pay Transparency Laws
It is in the best interest of employees for employers to be transparent about how much they pay employees in a certain role. Most companies fall far short of the ideal of paying the same salary to all employees who perform the same duties, and there are often justifiable reasons for this, but employers… Read More »
Are Mortgage Buydowns A Win-Win Situation Or A Shady Gimmick?
Nowhere besides the Washington, D.C. area is it more obvious that, during the pandemic, people with cushy, salaried jobs used the months of working from home to save up money to buy real estate. With no commuting expenses and no opportunities for dining out and recreational travel, the upper middle class turned those budget… Read More »
Disputes Between Businesses And Landlords Linger After The Pandemic
A new strain of COVID, even more contagious than the previous ones, may be making its way to the DC area, but people are going to approach things differently. No one seems especially interested in holing up at home and doom scrolling for an entire winter or partying just to be defiant. This time,… Read More »
