by Dave Duringer | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Commentary
And hands/feet kill more than rifles and shotguns combined: Crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) show that more people were killed with hammers and clubs than with rifles of every kind in 2017. According to the Uniform Crime Report,...
by Dave Duringer | 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 | 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 | 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...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | News & Commentary
Hungary is defending its nation by defending its families: The Hungarian government wants to reverse its own demographic decline the old fashioned way: by making it easier for the nation’s own citizens to have bigger families. To this end, Prime Minister Victor...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use
[UPDATE AND CORRECTION: The article linked below is incorrect — due to some very unclear media accounts. Apparently there was an armed white guy who failed to respond, but story here indicates it was another armed citizen, who happens to be BLACK, that actually...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Defensive Gun Use, News & Commentary
Good shoot: A brave dad armed with a pistol stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened fire. The unidentified father was leaving the establishment with...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Estate Planning, Family Protection, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
This flawed article also makes some very good points, so i’m copying a good portion of it below. [Just note that gun ownership is NOT declining as the article states (see here, here, and here).] While discussions about guns and gun ownership are common political...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection
Highly recommend this book by Jordan Peterson. You have to read the book to really understand his 12 rules, listed below. While it goes off on a few philosophical tangents I’m not sure I agree with, the book is a treasure chest of ideas you might include in...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 3, 2018 | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning, Tax Planning
Here is a great little slideshow on top estate planning priorities to avoid tragedy and missed opportunity (“Top 10 Dangers Facing Senior Citizen Clients”) which I summarize below (adding a little California-relevant detail of my own), with a link...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, News & Commentary
Sounds like a good idea, possibly for inclusion in incentive trust planning: “I want to make a promise to myself and to God that I will stay pure until I get married. “I don’t have to have sex to know that I am loved.” The Purity Movement preaches...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | Death Tax, Estate Planning, Tax Planning
Our Firearms Instruction and Responsible Stewardship Trust (F.I.R.S.T. Family Trust) takes many forms as it is custom like all our planning, but one variant involves a Health and Education Exclusion Trust. This type of trust allows you to give much greater...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
While the estate planning bar is a little hot under the collar over they handle trusts, at least this is some good news: Wells Fargo bucked corporate gun control by issuing $40 million in credit to Sturm, Ruger, & Co. Bloomberg reports that the $40 million...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | Firearm Training
On the importance of dialing 1911 prior to 911: In modern times, we know that people shot with handguns have an 85% chance of survival, provided they get medical treatment. The chances are far lower with shotgun or rifle, but even then modern medicine can...
by Dave Duringer | Nov 1, 2018 | News & Commentary
SAF has defended the Second Amendment rights of resident aliens before, with success. Riverside should back down on this. The Second Amendment Foundation has joined in a federal lawsuit challenging Riverside County, California and Sheriff Stanley Sniff over the...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 31, 2018 | Estate Planning, Family Protection, Punishment
Dead people voting is nothing new, but the phenomenon seems to be increasing. This is a problem if you are a conservative family sort, because dead people tend to vote Democrat. Our Anti-Post-Mortem Suffrage (Anti-PMS) Trust, a type of incentive trust, may be the...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 31, 2018 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Someone pulls out and activates a chainsaw on BART while verbalizing a threat of massacre, and you respond by posting a video on Twitter? and BART finds out about it because of your hashtag #BART, apparently because no one else called 911 either? #SMH! “I...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 25, 2018 | News & Commentary
American minds prove resilient after temporarily almost succumbing to media brainwashing a year ago: 57% oppose banning semi-automatic guns; 40% favor a ban Opposition is up after 2017 reading in wake of Las Vegas shooting Democrats more than twice as likely as...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 24, 2018 | Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Income Tax, Tax Planning
This Virginia attorney writes a very good article summarizing some of the problems of transferring real estate to a child as an alternative to actual estate planning. Capital gains tax due to loss of basis step-up, medicaid lookback (California’s medi-cal...
by Dave Duringer | Oct 24, 2018 | Blended Families, Dying Embarrassed, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
There are lots of ways to die embarrassed. Bad estate planning is one example; see the category above for others. Nothing can top being trampled for eternity while listening to bad puns! Seriously, have you given thought to the ultimate disposition of your remains? Do...
