These common estate planning errors can undermine even the best strategies, from unfunded trusts to wrong trustees and ...

When enterprises distribute documents electronically, it is often important that recipients can verify three important aspects of a document: Integrity: That the content has not been altered ...

A recent Arkansas Court of Appeals ruling indicates that courts may be unwilling to enforce arbitration provisions set forth in testamentary documents where a beneficiary challenges the validity of ...

The key difference between a grantor trust and a non-grantor trust is how taxes are handled. In a grantor trust, the person ...

Estate plans are an important part of preparing for the future. People protect their families and loved ones by creating wills, trusts, health care directives, etc., but what happens when ...

Having a financial plan in place during your lifetime is an important step in achieving peace of mind. But what would happen to your finances if you were to die suddenly, or if you were no longer able ...

Our typical approach is to design trusts to last for a beneficiary's lifetime (as opposed to terminating upon a selected age at which it is hoped financial maturity would have been attained), while ...

When someone passes away and their property is not in a trust, these assets must typically go through probate. Probate is a ...

In In re Rittenmeyer, the mother of the decedent was the executor of his estate. No. 05-17-01378-CV2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 2812 (Tex. App.—Dallas April 19, 2018, original proceeding). Among other claims, ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

So, you have an irrevocable trust (or several) and you want to take a loan from the trust. While that might sound simple it really may not be as simple and you think, and you should discuss the ...

The federal government is pushing hard for agencies to adopt zero-trust cybersecurity architectures, with new guidance released Tuesday from the administration’s policy arm—the Office of Management ...