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 How Best Can I Arrange for Financial Management if I’m Single?
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By Harry Margolis
In Durable Powers of Attorney, Non-Traditional Families, Revocable Trusts
Posted October 5, 2018

How Best Can I Arrange for Financial Management if I’m Single?

Question: I’m single, age 71, with no one able or capable to serve as my agent under a durable of attorney. My concern is what happens if I become mentally incapacitated. I have investments [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families
Posted July 6, 2018

Can Part Owner of Real Estate Create a Life Estate?

Question: If my sister and I inherited half of our dad’s house after he passed and then his wife went down to the courthouse and filed a life estate is this legally binding? We had no [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families
Posted June 22, 2018

Can Co-Owner of Real Estate Create a Life Estate?

Question: If my sister and I inherited half of our dad’s house after he passed and then his wife went down to the courthouse and filed a life estate is this legally binding? We had no [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families, Non-US Citizens
Posted March 9, 2018

What’s the Effect on My Right to Visit My Grandchildren if they Move to Canada?

Question: My adult son moved from California to Edmonton, Canada. He is not married to the girl he has been living with for almost five years and with whom he has children. What rights do I have [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Long-Term Care Planning, Non-Traditional Families
Posted September 29, 2017

Why Prenuptial Agreements are Necessary in Second Marriages

Question: My father was in  long-term care facility for six years paying out of pocket. His wife continued to live in their apartment. Why was she allowed to use dad’s income such as social [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families
Posted September 15, 2017

Five Questions to Ask Before Buying Your Parents’ House

Question: I would like to know if a child was interested in purchasing her parents’ home while they are alive and still living at the property and the child wishes to move into the home [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Long-Term Care Planning, Non-Traditional Families
Posted July 14, 2017

Should You Move In With Your Parents? Or Let Them Move In With You?

Multiple generations have lived together since homo sapiens started walking the earth 100,000 years ago. But that changed in recent centuries as the world industrialized and people started living [...]

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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families, Second Marriages
Posted May 12, 2017

Planning for the Second (or Third or Fourth?) Marriage or Relationship

If you’re getting married or you’re in a committed relationship and this is not your first gig, you and your fiance or partner shoud consider a prenuptial agreement or, if you’re not [...]

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 Life (and Planning) Can Get Complicated
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By Harry Margolis
In Non-Traditional Families
Posted March 17, 2017

Life (and Planning) Can Get Complicated

Life can be complicated, especially as people live longer and have more opportunities for relationships. While the Ozzie and Harriet model of a single happy marriage producing healthy children [...]

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