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The Role of a Trust Administrator: Legal Duties and Best Practices

May 08, 2024

Trust Administration When utilizing a trust as part of your comprehensive estate plan, you'll ...

Crafting Your Will: Essential Considerations for Michigan Residents

May 01, 2024

Why Create a Will? One of the most critical steps in estate planning is creating a will. By doi...

Common Inheritance Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

Apr 30, 2024

You don’t have to have a lot of money, or a big family, to have a lot of conflict over an estate. ...

The Importance of Do-Not-Resuscitate Declarations

Apr 19, 2024

As an estate planning law firm, we urge people to plan so that their wishes will be honored. That me...

Advocating for Elder Rights: Legal Tools and Strategies

Apr 17, 2024

What is Elder Law? A rapidly growing area of law concerns some of our most vulnerable: our agin...

Which Debts Take Priority in Probate?

Apr 12, 2024

One of the important duties of a personal representative of a Michigan estate is to settle the debts...

Estate and Tax Planning: Minimizing Your Tax Burden Legally

Apr 10, 2024

Estate Taxes While Michigan is a little less tax-heavy overall than some states, you will still...

Navigating Medicaid Planning for Long-Term Care: What You Should Know

Apr 02, 2024

What is Medicaid Planning? It's common knowledge that long-term care is expensive. Although som...

Housing Options for Seniors

Mar 26, 2024

About three million American adults aged 65 and older have moved in the last year, or roughly 6% of ...

Steps to Prevent Alzheimer’s

Mar 19, 2024

It’s a diagnosis everyone dreads: Alzheimer’s disease. Many of us have seen our parents or grand...