Probate Attorney Blog

Hey everybody! I just wanted to give you this quick introduction to let you know exactly what this is. Because we want to be the best estate planning attorneys in the world, we are intentional about learning something new every day. One of the ways we do that is by reading one statute (aka law) every day. When we get to the end we go back to the beginning. I figured as long as we were reading it we might…

In case you are wondering, no, you did not miss episode 64. I just forgot to call out a show as number 64! So, enjoy 65! This was an interesting question today on the listserve. Someone had a client who passed down their Seahawks tickets and the estate planning attorney was wondering what the best way was to value them. Here’s what I came up with… Christopher Small is a Bellevue estate planning lawyer who helps people get rich and…

On this of the show I talk about the importance of ideals vs. preferences when thinking about estate planning for children… When we are thinking about estate planning for children we often get ideals and preferences mixed up. For example, the ideal might be to get a good education, which leads to the preference to require college out of our kids. But, we forget to think about technical school, coaching, or the school of hard knocks. By focusing on our…

I have a weakness. I’m not proud of it, but it exists, and I own it 100%. If I have the chance, and I’m interested, I will binge watch an entire season of a show without thinking twice about it. In fact, it just happened to me. The show? Containment. The network? Netflix. And that’s how we get to the part about me getting all choked up. Without spoiling the entire series, there was a woman who had a kid,…

Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. One family created wealth that has lasted 6 plus generations and more than ten x’d their wealth. One family has no millionaires in it only 3 generations later… There’s nothing to say for this one. Watch the video or listen to the podcast. There’s a ton of great information in there. Christopher Small is a Seattle estate planning lawyer who helps people get rich and live forever. He is also the owner of CMS Law Firm LLC….

This is an email newsletter I recently sent out to my people. If you want don’t want to miss this type of content, please subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here. No, don’t worry, this isn’t a political post. We’ve had plenty of those already. But it is a post about politics. I have to be honest, I’m not extremely political, but I can’t take my eyes off of presidential races. For me it’s not about the politics, or the…

In a perfect world everyone in our family would be perfect. But this isn’t a perfect world. Today’s episode talks about how to deal with beneficiaries in trouble (to make sure they get what they should but don’t waste what they shouldn’t)… I’ve had countless clients come in to talk to me about estate planning that want to make sure of one thing: if there is someone in their family that has problems, whether a drug problem, an alcohol problem,…