Trusts & Estate Law

My name is Patrick Munro, financial adviser, we're talking about conflict of interest relative to estate planning. It's important when you're doing your financial planning to...

So probate lawyer career paths--it's not easy to break into this area of the law, if you're a budding law student or if you're a lawyer. And the reason it's not easy to...

Hi Sean Here. In This 3 Part Series, We Explain What Estate Planning Is And The Key Benefits For You And Your Family. Put Simply, Estate Planning Is The Management & Inter Generational...

Mr. Biernath: As an attorney, I have to make some certain disclosure and legal disclaimers, as does Judge Wolk. This meeting is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. I...

Mr. Biernath: The court does look to any advance guardianship designations for most developmentally disabled adults who didn’t have the opportunity to suggest who they wanted to be guardian, it won’t...

Mr. Biernath: Both of those: whoever the representative payee has to provide accountings back to and social security. I usually advise clients to let the representative payee handle that and not seek...

Mr. Biernath: Who are all these different people we’ve been talking about? There’s the proposed guardian or conservator that is the person who is saying “I want to be the guardian, I want to be the...

Mr. Biernath: Something I wanted to point out for emergency and non emergency is that for the emergency, it is for 60 days. At the end of 60 days it automatically dissolves. So often times you may end...

So what does an executor really do? Well, an executor does a couple of things. The first thing the executor ought to do is make sure that the property of the deceased is secured. And what I mean by...

What are executor fees? Fees for being an executor can go all the way across the board from none to quite a bit, depending on who the executor is. Sometimes it's not unusual in family...