When I heard about Tenisha Warner’s lawsuit, my first thought wasn’t about the celebrity angle. It was: I’ve seen this before. Not the exact same story, but the same estate planning gap. A family where the right intentions...

A family called me after their mother died. She had a will that was properly signed and perfectly valid. However, it didn’t tell anyone who had legal authority to care for her minor children in those first critical...

How to have the estate planning conversation with the people you love without making it weird. There’s a phrase most of us remember from decades past: “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” It was simple, direct, and it...

You’ve brought it up before. Maybe it was after watching a friend endure a probate process that dragged on for years. Maybe it was after seeing a family scramble because no one knew where important documents were. Perhaps...

A client forwarded me a CNBC article last week with a note: “Does this affect our trust?” It was a fair question. The article described a provision buried in the One Big Beautiful Bill that tax lawyers and...