Ronald Hudkins

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Estate Planning - Real Property Disbursement Problems.
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins The problem created by evenly splitting an interest in real property between your heirs. Many parents want to give an equal share of the family home or some other sentimental form of real property (actual land usually) ...
Estate Planning - Protecting Your Assets from the State
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins It isn't just the US Government waiting out there to grab a chunk of your hard earned estate when you become incapacitated or die. Strangely enough, state coffers are frequently enlarged through the mechanism of Medicaid....
Estate Planning – Protecting your Will's Integrity
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins In the not overly distant past, the writings of the testator were the only evidence of his or her intentions and mental capacity. Undue influence was harder to defend against when the only evidence was the testator's writi...
Estate Planning - No Contest Clause in your Will
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins There is value in the story of an older client who had seen a very interesting clause employed in a will. There was a great deal of money at stake and the many family members had little reason to love each other, because ...
Estate Planning - Capacity Challenges
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Wills and trusts have an interesting history in a culture as heavily influenced by British common law as our own. The bequests of wills have been the pole star around which a great deal of mystery fiction has been written...
Estate Planning -Intent to Disinherit or Oversight?
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Sometimes family and estate planning begins before the family is complete, particularly in an age where people (generally) are waiting until later to have children. In that case there could be grandchildren named in a will...
Estate Planning – Considering a Second Marriage Late in Life
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins As the life expectancy of people in the United States increases, the reality of second and third marriages becomes more likely even for those who tend to marry for a long time if not until the death of their first spouse. ...
Estate Planning - Protecting Your Furred Friend
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins The whole concept of estate planning has a couple of primary aims: 1) making sure that your assets are distributed where and how you want them to be, and 2) ensuring that your loved ones are cared for and able to comfortab...
Estate Planning - Undue Influence Considerations
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Often during the final years of a dear friend's or relative's life some person or persons will take over the task of caring for their sick and elderly friend or relative to a greater degree than the other people in their l...
Estate Planning - Rules and Trustees
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins If you are wisely attempting to put some assets into a trust (inter vivos) in your lifetime, then you have been paying attention to the important differences between wills and trusts. A trust created during your life will...
Estate Planning - The Life Estate
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins The life estate is something every first year law student learns about when they study the arcane and often bizarre history of property law that harkens back to the days of English knights, lords and serfs, and the transfe...
Planning for the Intangibles
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Every state has statutes and mechanisms in place that deal with disposal of tangible assets whether the deceased had a will or not. Families might fight over who gets the house, the cars, the stocks and the cash, but there...
Estate Planning - What About Life Insurance?
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Not too many years ago life insurance was considered to be the indispensable platform upon which all other estate planning efforts should be based. In fact, for those in the median and lower income ranges, it was often th...
Legality of Offshore Investments
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins Having an offshore banking account, corporation or trust are common themes in legal thrillers, spy novels and eastern European politics. There is a reason to be concerned about the legality of such accounts, for although ...
Offshore Trust - Effective Estate Planning, You Decide
Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins The creation of offshore trusts and other financial plans is a way of shielding your assets from the laws of the nation in which you reside. It can sometimes be used to remove one of the two certainties of life; taxes. A...

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