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Navigator: Nominating a New Estate Planning Term - Goat Rodeo
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Friday, September 12, 2014. Nominating a New Estate Planning Term - Goat Rodeo. So, you’re telling me I am better off just managing this Goat Rodeo? A rhetorical question posed by a client some months ago in follow-up to our one hour discussion about the ins and outs of the 1986 trust the client's parents had created. Yes, that is one way to put it. End of Life Issues. January 14, 2016 at 8:47 AM.
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Navigator: May 2014
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, May 26, 2014. Memorial Day and In Flanders Field. Monday, May 19, 2014. Have Children But No Will With Guardianship Nomination? Watch Cinderella And Find Motivation To Get It Done. Almost immediately my husband turns to be, and with an amused but shocked expression on his face, mouths "it's an estate planning problem! Who shares your values? Who is close to your child(ren)? Consider those ...
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Navigator: November 2014
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Somehow I held back the tears, the ones brimming in my eyes, sobs wanting to escape my throat. Somehow I held back, somehow I keep calling - can you help me find a home for The Boys? It was January 2014, what locals here in Wisconsin will remember as Polar Vortex season, and my mother was dying. What would happen to The Boys, her kitty cats? Typical mass-produced esta...
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Navigator: April 2014
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, April 28, 2014. Who Would Be Your Advocate in a Crisis? Excellent question. All too often I see people with a knee-jerk response to the question who do you want to list as your agent on the power of attorney for finance. My son, because he is the oldest or my sister, because if I do not she'll nag me until the day I die. Monday, April 21, 2014. Relatives vs. Family. You have shared a meal ...
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Navigator: June 2014
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, June 9, 2014. It Was Her Wish. Are you kidding me, it's in the Bible.follow the dying person's last wish! It is not often that my husband invokes the Bible, he is an atheist after all. But when he does, he is serious, and he is expressing the fact something is ancient. Not just some new trendy idea - it dates back to biblical times. I have no happy memories of that place. Do it at the ...
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Navigator: March 2015
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Modern Day Grave Robbers. And then one day a mailing caught my attention, it was from a huge on-line bank. Tearing it open the warning I issue to clients here in my legal office struck home - identity theft of the dead. Sharon - Welcome to [insert Bank Name here]! Here are the account numbers for your new 29 savings accounts! Yes, identify theft of the dead. Review your w...
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Navigator: July 2014
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, July 7, 2014. What Do You Mean She Did Not Survive? Survivorship in the World of Estate Planning. Without fail, every week or so a client will give me the look. Akin to Gary Coleman on Different Strokes, what I call "the Wathcha' Talkin' About Willis? Face You remember, this one:. Attorney: Well, your wife died after her sister, but she may not have actually survived her, it depends. Attor...
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Navigator: Welcome Sharon!: Modern Day Grave Robbers
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Modern Day Grave Robbers. And then one day a mailing caught my attention, it was from a huge on-line bank. Tearing it open the warning I issue to clients here in my legal office struck home - identity theft of the dead. Sharon - Welcome to [insert Bank Name here]! Here are the account numbers for your new 29 savings accounts! Yes, identify theft of the dead. Review your w...
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Navigator: Legacy - A Power We All Have
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, April 6, 2015. Legacy - A Power We All Have. Daughter: I said it first, I get a bath.NOW! You take fooooooorrrrrrrevvvvvvver in the bath. I want a quick shower! Daughter: [with a smirk spreading across her face], I know, let's do a coin toss! For the reader, she has an uncanny ability to win these games of chance, something that has not gone unnoticed by our son. From phrases we use, to fo...
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Making sense of illness, death and taxes through the eyes of Attorney and Author, Melinda Gustafson Gervasi. Monday, April 6, 2015. Legacy - A Power We All Have. Daughter: I said it first, I get a bath.NOW! You take fooooooorrrrrrrevvvvvvver in the bath. I want a quick shower! Daughter: [with a smirk spreading across her face], I know, let's do a coin toss! For the reader, she has an uncanny ability to win these games of chance, something that has not gone unnoticed by our son. From phrases we use, to fo...
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