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October is National Estate Planning Awareness Month! Our motto this year is “Celebrate and Educate!” To do this, BOOK LAW FIRM will be hosting weekly Facebook LIVE events around different estate planning topics to help our community answer the most important estate planning questions. We believe knowledge is power, and this campaign is all a [..]
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Author’s note: This blog post was originally posted on March 16, 2020. After six months, we felt certain updates were appropriate. Those updates have been indicated below. Clients, Partners and Friends: In light of the unfolding events we are all following closely regarding COVID-19, I wanted to share something important with you from an estate [..]
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EP 20/20 is a monthly estate planning seminar series developed by BOOK LAW FIRM and sponsored by the Prestonwood Foundation of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas. Apart from the day-to-day challenges, blended families face additional hurdles when addressing their estate planning needs. It is estimated that more than half of U.S. families are remarried [..]
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How to Save Money on Property Taxes As retirees transition to a fixed income, managing expenses can be critical. Many will have paid off a mortgage by this time (shout HOORAY!), but one housing expense still looms: property taxes. Thankfully, Texas law provides for a variety of property tax exemptions, which lower the taxable value [..]
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Transferring ownership of cash, property, or real estate out of a deceased person’s name and into a living person(s)’ name can happen in several different ways. One way is through a court proceeding. Probate is the name given to that court proceeding. To be clear, a probate proceeding is a lawsuit. What’s more, there are [..]
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Clients, Partners and Friends: In light of the unfolding events we are all following closely regarding COVID-19, I wanted to share something important with you from an estate planner’s perspective which may help inform you as we endure this global health pandemic together. It concerns the execution of a Texas medical power of attorney. As [..]
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If you own real estate as an investment, whether rental properties, house flips, VRBOs, etc.*, it is critical that you own these properties in a way that protects your personal assets (home, car, retirement, and so on) from liability arising out of these rentals. Imagine the horror scenario where someone is injured on one of [..]
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The call probably comes in once or more a week: Hi. I need to get a Will set up. How much does that cost? It’s a fair question. Clients deserve an expectation of the cost of service before going too far down the road with an estate planning attorney. Some callers are just shopping for [..]
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My number one spiritual gift is teaching. The Bible teaches that Christians are each given certain “extras” designed to help benefit all believers together (aka “the Church”). Sometimes these gifts are pretty miraculous. Sometimes these gifts are enhancements of our own natural abilities. The Bible calls them “spiritual gifts”. Spiritual gifting is how a guy [..]
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I recently hosted a seminar in Dallas-Ft. Worth as part of our estate planning series on the comparative differences between those who die with an estate plan (we called it a Will for brevity’s sake, but there are other planning options) and those who die WITHOUT a plan. Statistically, almost 60 percent of Americans say [..]
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