Avoiding Probate through Estate Planning
As we’re settling in to the New Year with our New Year’s resolutions already either forgotten or (hopefully) regularly scheduled and being followed, I have a challenge for all of [...]
What Is Estate Planning?
What Is Estate Planning? Estate planning is ensuring your surviving spouse or significant other, as well as your children, receive what you want them to when you die. Most clients [...]
Understanding the Difference between Medicare and Medicaid
Many people are confused by the difference between Medicare and Medicaid. Here is everything you need to know to figure out which one is best suited for your needs. Medicare [...]
Retitling Out-of-State Assets Into Trusts
We spend quite a bit of time counseling our trust clients on the importance of "funding" their trusts. Funding is the process of retitling assets into the name of the [...]
Titling Vacation and Second Homes
Many of our clients choose a living trust-based estate plan in order to avoid probate. Probate is avoided when assets are titled in the name of a living trust, and [...]
Estate Tax Laws and Married Couples
Recently, there have been a number of changes in the estate tax laws that benefit married couples. At Silverman Law Offices, we want to make sure that you are able [...]
What to do (if anything) when Mom’s will leaves you short
Estate Planning: Our courts have held that there must be probable cause to bring a challenge in order to avoid a “no contest” penalty. […]
When a Revocable Trust Doesn’t Leave Assets
Question: My former husband, Mel, recently passed away. He and I have two sons together, one of whom is a drug addict. Mel created a last-minute revocable trust and a [...]
Health Care Directives: Resources from Arizona Attorney General
Occasionally we have people contact our office simply looking for assistance with health care directives. Health care directives are used to appoint an agent to make health care decisions for [...]