Elderly adults often become targets for theft by the very people hired to help them. Caregivers gain access to homes and personal belongings. They steal money and valuables. Important documents like wills often vanish during these thefts. The documents may be destroyed accidentally or lost in the chaos that follows systematic exploitation. It can create...KEEP READING
Estate planning attorneys routinely include choice-of-law provisions in trust documents. They often defaulti to the state where the trust is created or where the attorney practices. These provisions might seem like boilerplate language, but they can profoundly impact beneficiaries’ rights decades later. The governing law determines everything from modification procedures to information rights, and these...KEEP READING