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Where to Start When Your Loved One’s Estate Is a Mess
As a Personal Representative for your loved one's estate, you already have a big job ahead of you. So to find that their estate is disorganized and unprepared can be overwhelming and discouraging. Where do you even start? I’ve put together four action steps you can...
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A Grandmother’s Love
If you have a personal item from someone who has passed away, you know how much that simple possession can mean. Sometimes the smallest things are the things we treasure most, because they connect us to someone we love and can no longer be with. At least that’s how it...
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Estate Administration in Virginia: An Aerial View
Estate administration has a bad reputation for being confusing, drawn-out, and difficult to navigate. Which can be true, especially with large complex estates. But if you have an aerial view of what it’s all about, estate administration doesn’t have to overwhelm...
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Emotional Health Amid A Pandemic: Amanda LaRose
Throughout the pandemic, we've tried to partner with individuals and small businesses who are offering help and advice. As we stay in the COVID-19 conversation in the Winchester and Northern Virginia community, we will provide as many resources for our clients and our...
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Getting Certain Things To Certain People When You Die
Getting Certain Things To Certain People - Why Does It Matter? Think for a moment about the most valuable things you own. If your house was on fire, what would you grab on your way out? For most of us, our most treasured possessions are pictures of our kids, gifts...
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Basic Dos and Don’ts For Agents And Executors
As someone's agent or Executor, you have a challenging but extremely important job ahead of you. If someone trusts you enough to put their end-of-life care or the carrying out of their post-death wishes in your hands, there can be a lot to live up to. My hope is to...
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A Legal Perspective On Life After Quarantine
We are all wondering what life is going to look like over the next few weeks and months as the country re-opens and we begin to get our feet under us again. No one can predict every challenge we will face, but here is some information to help you navigate from a...
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5 Lessons To Carry With Us From COVID-19
How do we move forward from COVID-19? Though the pandemic isn’t over yet, we’re past the initial weeks of the crisis, and as restrictions begin to ease throughout the country, we’re left asking, what now? Together, we will slowly figure out what life looks like after...
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Things To Think About With A Trust
Trusts can benefit you in your relational estate planning goals because they allow you to place restrictions on how your loved ones can use the assets that you leave them. There are many reasons why you might want to restrict how someone can use funds. They could be...
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