About Author:
Website: http://www.hunsbergerlaw.com
Don Hunsberger, Esq. has over 30 years of experience in estate planning, trusts, trust administration, wills, probate, guardianships, conservatorships and elder care. To connect with Don, call the Law Offices of Donald A. Hunsberger at (714) 663-8000 or visit www.hunsbergerlaw.com.
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December 1, 2014 •
2014, December 2014, Expert Advice, Money Matters •
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Comments Off on Remaining Flexible
When Change is the Only Constant with Tax Law, Portability Should be a Requirement, Not an Option Siriusly surfing channels last week en route to a seminar on Saturday, a selection fell on a song by Jose Mari Chan entitled “Constant Change.” The piece...
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November 1, 2014 •
2014, Home Life, Money Matters, November 2014 •
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Comments Off on 3 Triggers for Trust Revision
Life moments that should remind you to update your documents Parents of younger children often leave their lawyers’ offices with a sigh of relief. “We are so glad to get that out of the way,” they laugh together as they drop their pens on the conference...
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October 1, 2014 •
2014, Expert Advice, Money Matters, October 2014 •
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Comments Off on Choose Your Weapon: Cautionary Tales of Trustee Mis-Selection
The image is as clear as any Norman Rockwell calendar that catches a concept of childhood. Many moons past, my four-year-old son, decked out as his favorite Ninja Turtle, his hands placed adamantly on his hips, grips his two plastic Samurai swords, and from...
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September 1, 2014 •
2014, Expert Advice, September 2014 •
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Comments Off on Better Than One: Leaving a Pot of Honey for When Guardians Don’t Feel Like Pooh
For years I have been trying to help clients understand why it is a good idea to line up good guardians for their children, and to also set up helpers to manage the assets in the estate for those guardians who are bringing up the kids. Since I realize a man...
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August 1, 2014 •
2014, August 2014, Expert Advice, Money Matters •
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Comments Off on Once More Leaving the Beach: Plan Like an English Teacher
Summer is over: children are weeping in their classrooms, teachers are tacking up new bulletin boards, and moms are dancing in their kitchens. Forget about the crystal ball on Broadway: for families with children, this is the real start of the new year. Every...
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July 1, 2014 •
2014, Expert Advice, Home Life, July 2014, Money Matters •
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Comments Off on Final Touches: Two Tales of Family Healing
Recently, when a family came in to our offices to learn about the provisions of their grandfather’s trust, they couldn’t stop saying, “I can’t believe you got him to sign anything.” Not long before that, another family had come in to sign some...
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June 1, 2014 •
Expert Advice, June 2014, Money Matters •
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Comments Off on PASSING THE BATON: Planning Your Family’s Legacy
Last December I was blessed with more thoughtful gifts than anyone should hope for, but one of the simplest offerings to the old man was a work book entitled A Father’s Legacy: Your Life Story in Your Own Words by Thomas Nelson. This exercise is intended to...
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May 1, 2014 •
2014, Babies, Expert Advice, May 2014, Money Matters •
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Comments Off on Shifting Without Clutching: Planning for Change in Your Estate Documents
One of my first employers when I was in high school owned a car dealership and an auto repair facility that housed two tow trucks, which he was determined to teach me to drive. Early on in my lessons, when my left foot spent too much time on the clutch pedal,...
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April 4, 2014 •
2014, April 2014, Babies, Big Kids, Expert Advice, Home Life, Teens and Pre-Teens, Toddlers, Travel •
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Comments Off on It Happens Every Spring: Family Travel Rules to Think About Before Touring with Children
IT HAPPENS EVERY SPRING: Family travel rules to think about before touring with children It’s that time again: Swallows gliding back to Capistrano (we hope), baseball teams sliding in for Spring Training, and people calling their attorneys wondering what...
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March 5, 2014 •
2014, Big Kids, Expert Advice, March 2014, Teens and Pre-Teens •
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Comments Off on Special Siblings
When entrusting the care of a special needs child to a brother or sister, the future of each should be considered I looked at the lovely young woman in my conference room across the table from my firm’s fiduciary. She was a second generation patroness of...
