• posted: May 01, 2020
• Joseph M. Udall
• COVID-19

Even in its first few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic caused many people to examine or reassess what is most important to them. The need to prepare in case of an Read More

• posted: Apr. 30, 2020
• Joseph M. Udall
• Estate Planning
• children,  economic security,  trust fund

  There's a pejorative term for rich kids that you have probably heard on television: the trust fund baby, loosely described as a young person who enjoys a reliable steady income Read More

• posted: Mar. 30, 2020
• Joseph M. Udall
• Estate Planning
• gun trusts,  special needs trusts,  spendthrift trusts

  The beauty of a trust is that it allows the grantor to control assets while putting them outside the reach of taxes and creditors, both during life and after death.  There Read More

• posted: Feb. 29, 2020
• Joseph M. Udall
• Estate Planning
• pet trusts

  Our pets do a lot for us. They offer unfailing love and companionship, act as wake-up or intruder alarms and even help with household pest control. They can also serve Read More

• posted: Jan. 30, 2020
• Joseph M. Udall
• Estate Planning
• advance directive,  financial power of attorney,  healthcare power of attorney,  HIPAA waiver,  last will and testament,  living trusts

 Everybody understands what a will is: a document outlining your wishes for distributing your property after you are gone. But a will may not go far enough to settle all Read More

• posted: Dec. 30, 2019
• Joseph M. Udall
• Estate Planning
• community property,  joint tenancy with right of survivorship,  pay-on-death account,  transfer-on-death deed,  trusts

  Talk to an estate planning attorney about probate and you’ll probably hear it described as a quagmire. Families who have gone through the probate process would likely use terms like Read More