The Importance of Estate Planning: Ensuring Family Harmony and Protecting Your Legacy

The Importance of Estate Planning: Ensuring Family Harmony and Protecting Your Legacy Estate Planning attorneys see firsthand the turmoil and discord that can arise within families when a loved one passes away without a clear and comprehensive estate plan. The emotional toll of losing a family member is compounded when disputes over the estate emerge, […]

Part 3 — Family Meetings: Money Lessons — Teaching Financial Literacy With Age-Appropriate Practices

Part 3 — Family Meetings: Money Lessons – Teaching Financial Literacy With Age-Appropriate Practices Teaching children to be good stewards of wealth takes education, engagement, and experience. Communicating and developing a sense of the true meaning of wealth and teaching money lessons that develop financial literacy is a must, and it’s never too early for […]

Part 2: Family Meetings: How, What and When Do We Tell The Kids? Financial Information In An Information Age

Part 2: Family Meetings: How, What and When Do We Tell The Kids? Financial Information In An Information Age The traditional way of talking about wealth within a family is typically…silence. There is often fear about broaching the whole topic of family finances because of worries that sharing too much information will diminish one’s power, […]

Part 1 — Family Meetings: Understanding and Communicating Family Goals

Part 1 — Family Meetings: Understanding and Communicating Family Goals We all want to raise children who will be careful with money, but how? One of the best ways is to create a family culture of open communication about the family’s values, and the real meaning of wealth.   Part of any family meeting should […]