When I meet new clients, one of the very first important tasks that I undertake is to educate them about Estate Planning. I believe that it is important to understand what certain terms mean as well as understand the differences between different types of Estate Planning. What I will focus on in this article is [...]
March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ESTATE PLANNING WITH A PURPOSE: DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING
Isaiah 46:10-11 AMP – Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure and purpose, Calling a ravenous bird from the east – the man [Cyrus] who executes My counsel from a [...]
March 2, 2012 By 2 Comments
ESTATE PLANNING FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS: APPOINTING GUARDIANS FOR THOSE WE LOVE
John 19: 25-27 AMP – But by the cross of Jesus stood His mother, His mother’s sister, Mary the [wife] of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. So Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, [Dear] woman, See, [here is] your son! Then he said to the disciple, [...]
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WHERE ARE YOU NOW AND WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?
Proverbs 27: 23 KJV – Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. One of the most difficult aspects of planning for some people in getting started with their Estate Planning is knowing just exactly where they are now. Proper Estate Planning will accomplish wonderful things including [...]
February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
10 ESSENTIALS OF ESTATE PLANNING: A CHECKLIST OF THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHEN PLANNING
It is extremely important to execute your Estate Plan. Before meeting with an Estate Planning Attorney, it is important to understand what Estate Planning is so that you can be better prepared. I have provided a checklist of some important concepts to think about and information you will need to gather: 1. You will need [...]
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON’T PLAN – FEAR OF MORTALITY AND INTESTACY LAWS
II Corinthians 5:8 AMP – [Yes] we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord. If you do not plan, then you do still have an Estate Plan, but it may not be what you intended. In [...]
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
THE LAW OF LOVE: A KEY TO SUCCESS
John 15:12 KJV – This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. I Corin. 13:1-8 AMP – If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in [...]
February 12, 2012 By 2 Comments
PLANNING WITH GOD, NOT APART FROM GOD
Proverbs 14:12 KJV – There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. We have all been bombarded with invitations to financial and estate planning seminars and have seen an enormous amount of advertising for them. In the financial and estate planning world, we call [...]
February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Entertainment Law: Turning Art Into Big Business
James 2:26 KJV – Faith without works is dead. During the course of my Entertainment Law practice, one of the most common experiences for me as an attorney is consulting and advising an artist who is extremely talented, but doesn’t understand that the entertainment industry is an industry and it is big business! For artists [...]
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Preparing For And Winning The Big Game
2 Timothy 4:7 KJV – I have fought a good fight, have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 AMP – I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight, I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith. The teams who are playing in the big [...]
February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DON’T PROCRASTINATE ON YOUR ESTATE PLANNING THIS YEAR.
Year after year, about this time, I meet with individuals and couples who have made a list of things they want to accomplish in the new year with either initiating or reviewing their Estate Planning as a high priority. The Byrds made very popular the first part of Ecclesiastes 3. Verse 1 AMP says, “To [...]
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE AN HEIR?
In my Estate Planning practice, I hear people joking about wishing they had a long lost rich uncle that left them a lot of money. The good news is that you don’t have a long lost rich uncle, but you do have a Heavenly Father that has made you His beneficiary. There are several ways [...]
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
ADDRESSING THE STATE OF YOUR ESTATE
The U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 3, commands the President of the United States as follows: “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” This week, President Obama communicated his State of the [...]
January 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A FAITH BASED HOLISTIC APPROACH TO YOUR ESTATE PLANNING AND BUSINESS PLANNING
All people for the most part strive towards progress, but successful progress is almost certainly an unrealistic goal without a holistic approach. Many use the term holistic, but it is important for this discussion to understand the meaning of the term as some only use it but do not follow through on actually practicing in [...]
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
THE KNOWLEDGE REQUISITE IN CHRISTIAN ESTATE PLANNING
Christian Estate Planning requires knowledge which produces wisdom. We have to have knowledge about the blessings and then have the wisdom to appropriate them for ourselves. This helps us to appropriate God’s blessings in our lives. This is God’s best in terms of Christian Estate Planning. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…Hosea 4:6 AMP [...]
January 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
BASED ON FAITH: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE. WHAT IS INCLUDED IN YOUR ESTATE?
For as long as I can remember, I have identified myself as a Christian. I can even remember the day that I officially gave my heart to the Lord – October 2, 1988. My intentions have always undeniably been good, but I have, on occasion, gone down paths that did not mirror or reflect what [...]
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
THE DEBT MYTH: OWE NO MAN ANY THING, BUT TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Romans 13:8 KJV – Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8 AMP – Keep out of debt and owe no man anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor [who practices loving others] has fulfilled the Law [...]
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