(c) Can Stock Photo According to The National Center for Education Statistics, about 35% of children ages 3-21 have some kind of learning disability. About 20% have a speech or language impairment. More significantly, about 9% of this population has autism, 6% have an...
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Why You Should Consider a Senior Living Facility If You Are Caring for Loved Ones from Afar
Image via Pixabay by whitfieldink Being a family caregiver under any circumstances is a difficult job. If you are a remote caregiver, you have even more challenges because you must make sure your loved one is happy and well without being able to check-in personally....
Advantages of Choosing a Corporate Trustee
(c) Can Stock Photo The benefits of doing a living trust and transferring your assets into the trust during life are many. A primary benefit is that your estate will circumvent the probate process when you pass, if you do things right, saving your loved ones many...
Trusts Compared to Corporations
Diagram of relationship of business with stakeholders The concept of a trust is difficult for many people to grasp because a trust is a concept, and therefore is intangible. Another intangible concept that is more familiar, and therefore seems easier to understand,...
Introducing ABLE Accounts
(c) Can Stock Photo After much anticipation and delay, Illinois families can finally utilize the ABLE Account Program. The ABLE Account Program (15 ILCS 505/16.6) allows individuals receiving SSI and other means-tested programs to open up a bank account (similar to a...
What is a Simple Will?
(c) Can Stock Photo An expansion from Do I Need a Will? I have done a series of articles explaining estate planning on a spectrum from simplest and cheapest to more complex and more expensive. Generally, that spectrum flows from planning how assets are owned so that...
Estate Planning for Singles
(c) Can Stock Photo “These times, they are a changin’” is the famous line by Bob Dylan. It was an anthem for the 1960’s and early 1970’s. It seemed pretty profound to us who lived through those times. Today we deal with more mundane things, like estate planning, and...
Advantages of Choosing a Corporate Trustee
(c) Can Stock Photo The benefits of doing a living trust and transferring your assets into the trust during life are many. A primary benefit is that your estate will circumvent the probate process when you pass, if you do things right, saving your loved ones many...
New Child Support Law Initial Impressions
(c) Can Stock Photo In case you have not heard, Illinois implemented the income shares model for child support determination, and it took effect July 1, 2017. If you are currently receiving child support, paying child support or are currently involved in child support...
Family Lawyer vs. Divorce Lawyer
We throw terms around without really thinking about them sometimes, but those terms influence how we think about the things those terms describe. Different terms have different connotations. For instance, the term, “family lawyer”, might generate a sense of...
