by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 14, 2021 | Blog, Family Protection, Health Planning, Life
Could we see forced organ harvesting here in the US? Of course the notion seems far-fetched, but over the last couple years we’ve fetched so much culture-rending nonsense from far-away communist China that we could be up to our eyeballs in China soon. We...
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 | 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 - Protective Law Corp | 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 - Protective Law Corp | 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 - Protective Law Corp | 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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 7, 2018 | Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
This article is a good overview, written by a financial advisor. However, note that powers of attorney only deal with non-trust assets and are frequently rejected by institutions so be sure that your trust is funded and adequately plans for incapacity as well...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2018 | Health Planning
Have you addressed this issue in your Advanced Health Care Directive? Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) differ from pacemakers, which control abnormal heart rhythms. Pacemakers prompt the heart to beat at a normal rate through electrical pulses, whereas...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2018 | Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
I know, I know: “From my cold dead hands!” But isn’t it better to have a plan worked out with family — for guns, for long term care, for a bunch of things? Blessing had reportedly concealed two pistols in the pockets of her robe and then...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 14, 2018 | Family Protection, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
Why is it that Muslim countries seem to figure so prominently in black market organ trafficking, and human trafficking in general? Non-consensual spinal tap — more reason to have a good health care directive these days. Pakistani police have arrested four...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 24, 2018 | Archived, Estate Planning, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning
When you are down for the count, who will be calling the shots for you? You can control what happens, if you know about advance health care directives. We’ll focus on this topic at our Family Protection Clinic (aka estate planning seminar) lunch meeting on...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 27, 2017 | Health Planning
My suggestion, for anyone wishing to go as far as DNA testing to be sure of the identity of remains, is to avoid cremating those remains. The couple has since received a new box that the crematory said is their daughter ashes, but they hope a DNA test can...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 24, 2017 | Estate Planning, Health Planning, Retirement Planning
Hmmm…why wasn’t she allowed to stay in her home with live-in help? Sounds like she had the ability to pay for that, and repairs, too! Lots of history there and it’s all she knew. Rule 1.14 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct1 addresses...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 22, 2017 | Asset Protection, Health Planning
When children turn 18, they legally become adults. If there was a catastrophic life event which rendered them unable to make their own life decisions, their parents no longer have any legal rights. If the young adult becomes seriously ill or disabled, it may...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 20, 2017 | Archived, Estate Planning, Health Planning
The US study found those who drank a can of artificially-sweetened pop — such as Diet Coke or Pepsi Max — daily were at three times the risk of suffering the most common form of stroke compared to non-drinkers. They were also 2.9 times more likely to develop...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 28, 2017 | Archived, Asset Protection, Health Planning, Retirement Planning
[bctt tweet=”Brevity is the soul of twit: ONE-SENTENCE BILL REPEALS OBAMACARE #tcot #ccot #MAGA” username=”guntrust”] “This Act may be cited as the ‘Obamacare Repeal Act,'” the bill states. And the bill uses just one sentence...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 27, 2017 | Estate Planning, Health Planning
It’s alive! (Well, for the moment anyway.) Sacramento, CA–The latest battleground over gender theory is coming to nursing homes—and failure to conform to State orthodoxy could be a crime. The mandates on long-term care facilities, their employees...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 23, 2017 | Estate Planning, Health Planning
Fraser Trebilcock Elder Law attorney Melisa Mysliwiec says that proper planning helps to ensure that the person with the diagnosis is able to contribute to important decisions about health care and long-term care, finances and property, and deciding who will...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 23, 2017 | Estate Planning, Health Planning
The latest study takes a new approach, showing that, aside from ApoE, there are thousands of background genetic variations that each have a tiny influence on Alzheimer’s risk, but whose cumulative influence is substantial. The researchers first identified nearly 2,000...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 23, 2017 | Estate Planning, Health Planning
Taxes, schmaxes — pendulum keeps swinging. But THIS could kill demand for estate planning overnight, at least among mice: The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice after just one week of treatment,’ said lead author...