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#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…

On this week’s edition of the show we’re talking about how to manage your accountant. Remember, they are here to help you. To find out how to get the most out of your accountant, watch the video! Hello everybody and welcome to episode number ten of The Rich Life Lawyer Show. I’m Christopher Small as always. I’m here to just have a little conversation with you right now. I’m talking about how to manage accountants and if you checked out…

What is Intestacy? Let’s start with the legal definition: Intestacy is the condition of the estate of a person who dies owning property whose value is greater than the sum of their enforceable debts and funeral expenses without having made a valid will or other binding declaration. Alternatively this may also apply where a will or declaration has been made, but only applies to part of the estate; the remaining estate forms the “intestate estate”. Wow. Make sense to you?…

We talk about estate planning all the time here at the office, but I don’t if I’ve ever taken the time to talk about or explain what an “estate” really is. I guess if you’re going to talk about estate planning, you should define the main word that explains what you do. So let’s give it a shot. The Legal Definition of Estate If you talk to any estate planning lawyer and ask them what an estate is, this is…

As an estate planning attorney I know how easy it is to get blinders on when it comes to counseling my clients. It takes a special level of concentration to make sure each client is achieving their specific goals, not the ones I think they should be achieving. The same situation applies to financial planners. Here’s how to get the most out of your financial planner. MY NEWEST ARTICLE: Do You Even Care What Happens When You Die? Christopher Small…