Aug 28, 2026 | Documents, Small Business, Successor, Wills
Make-A-Will Month is a good reminder to think about this. But for business owners, a will barely scratches the surface. We work with business owners on exactly these questions, and the gaps we find are almost always the same. What a Will Actually Covers for a Business...
Aug 23, 2026 | Children, Estate Planning, Family, Wills
You did it. Maybe Make-A-Will Month finally moved it to the top of your list. Maybe you’ve been meaning to get this done for years and this was the month it finally happened. Either way, you sat down, signed the documents, and walked out with something...
Aug 16, 2026 | Celebrities, Children, Death, Estate Planning, Family
When we heard about Tenisha Warner’s lawsuit, our first thought wasn’t about the celebrity angle. It was: We’ve seen this before. Not the exact same story, but the same estate planning gap. A family where the right intentions were there. Where...
Aug 13, 2026 | Family, Small Business, Wills
August is Make-A-Will Month, and for most people, that is a prompt to finally get a will done. For business owners, the stakes are higher and the plan is more complicated. A personal will and a business succession plan are not the same thing. And if you only have one...
Aug 10, 2026 | Estate Planning, Family, Wills
A family called us after losing their mother. She had a will, properly signed and perfectly valid. But it didn’t tell anyone who had legal authority to be with the children in the first 72 hours, who could pay the mortgage while the accounts were frozen in...
Aug 3, 2026 | Estate Planning, Friends
There’s a phrase most of us remember from decades past: “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.” It was simple, direct, and it worked, because it reframed a difficult conversation as an act of friendship, not judgment. The same logic applies to...
