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Considerations for Hiring Your Child as an Employee Hiring your child to work in the family business can be a win-win situation for both you and your child. A child employee offers you tax advantages not available with other employees. There are also potential tax...

Common Pitfalls in Family-Owned Businesses Your family and your business are two of your top priorities. You would not do anything to compromise either of them. But working with family members in a family-owned business presents unique challenges that can cause...

Mineral rights and the interest in them have been central to the plot of many a movie and book and for good reason. Mineral rights can be one of the most complex inheritances for an heir, often due to their value, be it perceived or in black and white. If a deceased...

Selling a Deceased Loved One’s Real Estate: Things You Need to Know After the death of a loved one, such as a parent, there are a variety of tasks that must be handled to wrap up your loved one’s final affairs. Selling your deceased loved one’s real estate is one of...

Estate Planning: Answering Common Questions of Senior Citizens According to a study conducted by Caring.com, the percentage of people aged fifty-five and older who have created a will has fallen from 60 percent to 44 percent since 2019.[1] Although creating or...

How Can Remarriage Affect Your Estate Planning?  Divorce is more common now than it was in the past, as is remarriage. Depending on how long a prior marriage lasted, the former couple may have engaged in certain levels of estate planning together. When that is the...

Fears When Talking about Money Studies have shown that the largest contributing factors to generational loss of wealth are a lack of communication and trust among family members and the failure to prepare heirs. Often, fear is what underlies the lack of communication...

10 Types of Trusts: A Quick Look Considering the myriad of trusts available, creating the right estate plan can seem daunting. However, that is what we, as estate planning attorneys, do every day. We know the laws and will design a plan which addresses your specific...

How to Remove a Member of an LLC As a business grows, its ownership structure may change and an owner may need to be removed. Removing an owner of a limited liability company (also known as a member) may become necessary if a member retires, dies, changes career,...

Make Gifts That Your Family Will Love but the IRS Won’t Tax Do not let constant political and financial speculation prevent you from making tax-free annual exclusion, medical-payment, and educational gifts to or for the benefit of your loved ones. Make Annual...

Navigating Mineral and Surface Contracts It can be a time of excitement when a landowner is contacted regarding some sort of mineral or surface rights proposition. Be it a cell tower, wind turbines, a pipeline, or the sale or lease of mineral rights, landowners need...

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