by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 10, 2022 | Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Fortune, Operation & Governance, Venture Protection
Conflicts are inevitable within businesses and families. Personal rivalries, differences of opinion, competition for resources, and questions of prestige can set individuals at odds and lead to warring factions with competing loyalties. Resolving conflicts in both...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 8, 2022 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Limitation of Liability, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Tax Planning, Venture Protection
Trusts are usually associated with estate planning, but trusts can also apply to business operations. As a small business owner, you can hold the business in a trust instead of using a business entity such as a limited liability company (LLC) or corporation. Business...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 28, 2022 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Operation & Governance, Venture Protection
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” From the very beginning, you had a plan for your business to succeed. You set goals and developed methods to achieve those goals. Your business has stood the test of time because you...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2022 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Life, Religious Faith, Spendthrift Children
I stole the title of this post from a great Babylon Bee article that just came out. For those who don’t know, Babylon Bee is satire. Strangely, their satirical articles often do come true. And this particular title hews closely enough to family settings often...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 2, 2022 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Life
Only a few months after enacting harmful gun control putting families at risk, Morro Bay City Council on January 25th passed a resolution supporting abortion rights. You might think the Council had better things to do, like maybe avoiding fines of $10,000 or...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 31, 2019 | Business Succession, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
The reason for the season. "Today in the town of David a savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord." – Luke 2:11https://t.co/ePL8UKhjFY pic.twitter.com/P6L4hBPHeg— Official Hobby Lobby (@HobbyLobby) December 25, 2019 Do you have a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 18, 2019 | Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Religious Faith
Excerpts: Christianity elevated matrimony to a sacrament, affirming its indissolubility. When the Roman Empire collapsed the only reality which endured to form the basis of a new society was the family. The birth of the Middle Ages coincided with the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 15, 2019 | Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, 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 | 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 - 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 | Jan 16, 2018 | Archived, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Punishment, Religious Faith
The second item in our Bill of Rights is actually a very Catholic Second Amendment. This may surprise, since although the Catholic Church has a reputation for defending a number of aspects of Family Power, our bishops are not exactly known as big gun rights...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 14, 2018 | Archived, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Pet Protection, Punishment, Religious Faith
The term “family protection” is used in many different contexts. For example, in insurance planning it often refers to the concept of “income replacement” for a family bereft of its primary breadwinner. What should “family...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 24, 2017 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
The abortion rate in the US has plummeted to an historic low: In 2014, there were 12.1 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age – down from 19.4 in 2008. On the other hand, in England women are having fewer children than ever: The same generation also had...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 23, 2017 | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection
Fewer young men in the US want to get married than ever, while the desire for marriage is rising among young women, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew recently found that the number of women 18-34 saying that having a successful marriage is one of the most...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2017 | Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship
The starting point for dealing with wealth disparity is having a common understanding of what family means for this generation and developing a shared vision for how to be a family in the future. This shared vision, based on the identification of shared values...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 7, 2017 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
Mastering Life Ministries’ 850 videos were recently all barred from Vimeo. Many of the videos addressed healing from childhood sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and pornography addiction. Source: Former transgenders share sex change regret stories in new...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 27, 2017 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection
“The family therefore holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate the offspring, a right inalienable because inseparably joined to the strict obligation, a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society and of the State,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2017 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 15, 2017 | Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Punishment, Religious Faith
Some families construct a legacy of memories and real estate, say by buying a vacation property that is held in a trust or other structure so it is equally owned by all heirs. “That keeps it intact for at least another generation and ensures that it is not...