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The Magna Carta is 800 years old this month. I was signed 800 years ago on June 15, 1215, (to be exact) at Runnymede, England. The Magna Carta is a pivotal document. It set a foundation for the Rule of Law in the West unsurpassed by any written document other than...
Back row: Gregory C. Maksimuk (Pres.); Dean M. Frieders (Past Pres.); Joshua B. Rosenzweig (Gen. Counsel); Carolyn D. Jansons (Sec/Trea.); Lindsay Hatzis (Member); Elizabeth Berrones (Member); Kathleen Doyen (Member); (not pictured are Scott M. Richmond (Member) and...
Social pundits have said that kids who grew up in the 1970's are part of the “me generation”. They are forty and fifty somethings now. Our survival-of-the-fittest world encourages people to “look out for number one”. In that context, the fiduciary idea is...
During the time that I have been representing people doing estate planning, handling probate estates and other estate administration and similar matters, I have come across many, many stories, both good and bad, of examples what to do and what not to do in regard to...
President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared May 1st to be Law Day during his presidency on February 5, 1958, and it was made official by Act of Congress on April 7, 1961. In the President’s Declaration, he declared, “In a very real sense, the world no longer has a choice...
I have been doing estate planning for nearly 20 years, and I am surprised at the relatively small number of my clients who have incorporated charitable giving into their estate planning. Many of those same people have been charitable during their lives, giving to...
We are more than pleased to announce that Mark Brent has been chosen for membership in the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. The recognition of Mark Brent for his dedicated service is an honor of the highest magnitude and follows from a professional life...
THE EXECUTOR I had a friend who died and he, On earth so loved and trusted me, That ere he quit this earthly shore, He made me his executor. He tasked me through my natural life, To guard the interests of his wife, To see that everything was done, Both for his...
In my high school psychology class, my history teacher came and spoke to us one day about his disabled son. He read to us a short story in which he compared having a disabled child to a trip to Europe. The story began with a couple planning to go to Italy to tour...
“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. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as some say. The number of people who have never been married has steadily grown since 1970....