Business Succession Planning: Leaving a Multi-Generational Legacy One of the reasons I decided to become an estate planning attorney was to help business owners leave more than a pile of rubble when they pass away. I am a business owner myself. I’ve owned this law firm for almost eight years as of the writing of this. I’ve poured blood, sweat, and tears into this business. I’ve taken time away from my family for this business. I’ve spent countless amounts of…
#RichLifeLawyer Podcast 002: How to Choose a Guardian for Your Children I’ve helped a ton of people with their estate plans and a question I often get, and in fact, a question that often holds people up from taking action at all is: How Do I Choose a Guardian for My Children? It’s such an important decision and there are so many factors that go into it that actually making a final decision can be very difficult. In today’s podcast…
Estate Planning Lawyer Definitions: Inter Vivos This is a little segment I’m going to do called “Estate Planning Lawyer Definitions.” It’s easy for us to throw around terms all the time and expect people to know what they mean when in fact they should have no real reason to know. I want to end all of the confusion. Each week I’m going to define a term for you. This week we’re defining the word “inter vivos.” Inter vivos is latin….
#RichLifeLawyer Show 012: Five Success Principles Success is possible for all of us. As an estate planning attorney I’ve seen people go from nothing to everything by following a few simple ideas. These are those ideas. To get that and more, just listen to the show! Hey everybody, Christopher Small here, this is episode twelve of The Rich Life Lawyer Show, I’m excited to be here with you today. I’m gonna talk about success. I love talking about success. So…
#RichLifeLawyer Show 011: Five Ways to Get Cash Now No one ever wants to be in a cash crunch. But it happens. Maybe the IRS handed you a bill you weren’t expecting, or your car suffered a catastrophic failure. No matter the reason, sometimes you just need cash. Here are five way to get it right now – just watch the video! Hey everybody, welcome to episode eleven, whatever, of The Rich Life Lawyer Show, as always I’m your host,…
We as human beings are so funny. We have so many personality quirks and eccentricities. We are all so different. One of the things that makes us different from one another are our pasts and the family values we were raised with. One of these family values is our relationship to money. This relationship can be either constructive or destructive, depending on the effect it has on the way you talk about and manage money. That’s what we’re going to…
I know you know you need to have an estate plan together. We all know it. We all get that it’s important. Yet so few of us have it (including me until very recently, and quite truthfully, NOT at the time that I wrote this article). Why is estate planning so difficult to understand? All I can do to get you to put something together (and I don’t care if you do it with us so long as we do…
