by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 7, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use
A 14-year-old girl fired a 9mm pistol at someone looking to break into her home, according to the Lawrence County Constable Association and confirmed by the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office. Story here. See our list of similar cases of kids using guns for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 15, 2019 | Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Incapacity Planning
When Governor Newsom approved AB 1292 on July 12, he made estate planning easier for California gun owners. Why would Sacramento Democrats make death easier for us? I can only speculate, but I’m guessing it’s because the confusing state of the law put non-gun...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Not technically a defensive gun use, but kid commando gets even more bonus points for using close contact weapon: “You hit them in the back of the head with a machete?” the 911 operator asked after Braydon told the story. “Did you see if he was bleeding at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2019 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Trenton, MO, police officer Jasmine Diab, 24, a single mother of a five-year-old girl, was shot in the abdomen by a prisoner she was transporting. A small group of concerned citizens, one of whom was armed, was able to rescue the officer and subdue the suspect...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2019 | Death Tax, Estate Planning, Tax Planning
Using quantitative analysis, we’ll show that the grantor’s choice is almost always clear: If her two-year GRAT is funded with marketable securities and is underwater at all prior to the first annuity date, she should cut her losses and start a new GRAT. That...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 7, 2019 | Business Succession, Estate Planning, Venture Protection
With enough lead time, it can be possible to eliminate estate tax, or at least to minimize and defer the payment of such tax. With the estate tax rate a significant 40 percent, this can make all the difference in allowing a business to remain family-owned, for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 7, 2019 | Estate Planning, Trust Admin
For years, cryptocurrency owners have focused on coin security. Many of our clients protect their coins and accounts from online hackers through offline storage and complex passwords that are memorized but never written down. A recent Canadian bankruptcy filing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 6, 2019 | Health Planning
UPDATE: Every few months I see a story like the one below, and I try to make the time to blog it. However a few months after posting the story below, I had a client in my office relating a very personal and emotional story at least as amazing as any other such story...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 6, 2019 | News & Commentary
https://youtu.be/lXGgI2E5JUw Have you heard that the US is #1 in mass shootings? I...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 6, 2019 | Asset Protection, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Tax Planning
Outright distributions, even if staged at various ages, signify outdated planning. The Beneficiary Controlled Trust, pioneered by my friend Steve Oshins and his father, fills the gap between outright distribution and extreme asset protection — very...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 24, 2019 | Firearm Training
Here is a current list of those who have passed Front Sight’s Handgun Combat Master skills test: 1. Dr. Ignatius Piazza (Glock 22)—Cert Date Unknown2. Mr. Mark Flinn (Glock 21)—21 Sept 19973. Mr. Lawrence (Lenny) Boulton (Glock 22)—21 Sept 19974. Mr. Brad...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 18, 2019 | Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary
CCW students: Call for password Not much time for blogging lately, but had to make this post because the widespread censorship of both the video of the shooting, and the shooter’s manifesto, is even more disturbing than the objects of the censorship, which are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 6, 2019 | Dying Embarrassed
Not much time for blogging lately, but this one definitely belongs in our “Dying Embarrassed” category: A billionaire diamond trader has died after ‘suffering a heart attack’ during a penis enlargement operation in Paris. Ehud Arye...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 4, 2019 | Death Tax, Estate Planning, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
While the estate tax is a perennial boomerang, Warren’s wealth tax tomahawk chop flies in the face of the Constitution’s prohibition on unapportioned scalping: The Constitution prohibits federal direct taxes that are not apportioned by population,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 27, 2019 | News & Commentary
Kamala Harris and I were both in the Class of 1989 at UC Hastings College of Law, but I did not know her personally — Hastings was in 1986-1989 a large law school (about 1500 students). Although I passed the bar exam the first time I sat for it and was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 22, 2019 | News & Commentary
Apparently a LOT of folks at Google, based on the number of upvotes for the following employee complaint, feel it is inappropriate to use the word “family” in a way that assumes there are children in the family: This is a diminishing and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
And hands/feet kill more than rifles and shotguns combined (also in 2016 knives killed five times as many as rifles): Crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that more people were killed with hammers and clubs than with rifles of every...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Estate Admin, Probate Admin, Trust Admin
Insolvent estates happen and are full of minefields for all involved: Begin With a Plan When faced with such an estate, the advisor should meet with the executor and together they should set out a plan for success. The plan should include a beginning inventory...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Why, to qualify for fruit cup? “We just want to make sure we’re representing the people that are in our community,” he said. But Alexander told the Bee that the “stupid” questions offended her so much that she has considered withdrawing from the program,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
And these are just the ones picked up by media: Source: Sixty-seven defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over the past three months – Crime Prevention Research CenterCrime Prevention Research...
