The advance health care directive is one of the most crucial estate planning documents that you can create for yourself. This document gives someone you choose (“agent”) the power to manage your medical and health care affairs if you become incapacitated or mentally impaired. It is a position of maximum trust. If you plan to appoint someone as your agent,…
If you are over the age of 50, chances are that someone in your family or friend has been struck by a debilitating disease. Some of the most debilitating diseases in the U.S. include rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, muscular dystrophy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s and…
Looting an elderly person’s estate is not as isolated as you may think. There have been many newspaper articles about estate looting. For example, back in 2009, Anthony D. Marshall, the 85-year-old son of Brooke Astor, the wealthy New York socialite who died in 2007, was sentenced to prison for raiding money from his mother’s estate that was earmarked for…