by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 4, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Defensive Gun Use, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, GunLaw.Pro, Health Planning, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Income Tax, Life, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Pet Protection, Probate Admin, Property Tax, Punishment, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith, Retirement Planning, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection, WorldExaminer.com
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 10, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
Yesterday Trump announced he will sign full national concealed carry (CCW) reciprocity, meaning you will be allowed to carry in any state as you travel. The bill has been pending in congress for some time, so it will likely be enacted quickly. Just in time, as Gov....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
You may have seen my posts or heard my radio commercials on the idea of #DisinheritWoke. Like leaving a legacy of firearm training, i think it’s much more important than trying to succeed in politics or the courts. Is it any wonder why so many of my estate...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
It probably takes a lot to shock Dr Lott: The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. . The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) checks the background of illegal aliens they have in custody. But, the administration’s...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Honor, News & Commentary
Political humor (parody, satire, etc.) is legal again in California! A federal judge has enjoined Gov. Noisome’s perniciously noisome “Deepfakes” law (actually a collection of three noisome bills he signed with this noisome objective) as it is likely...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Health care planning is one of the most important concerns of comprehensive estate planning, often overlooked or given short shrift by simpler estate plans. There has been a great deal of attention given to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ordering elderly...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 30, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, Pet Protection
Details are sketchy and confusing in this bizarre case of an apparent child abduction by an apparently drug-addled attacker wielding a knife in an apparent attempt to grab a 2 year old girl on a walk with her parents in Beverly Hills. The father bravely defended...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 20, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Creditors & Predators, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Income Tax, Life, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
At the beginning of this year, the California Uniform Directed Trust Act (CUDTA) went into effect, codified in Probate Code §§ 16600-16632. It was a long time coming, having been first proposed back in 2010 by our state bar’s trust and estate section. When it...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 17, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Income Tax, Life, Limitation of Liability, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Six years ago I posted this article proposing use of an advanced planning technique known as the Health and Education Exclusion Trust (HEET) to leave a dynastic legacy of firearm training. Such a trust might be called a Gun HEET. The Fall of the Republic and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 10, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, GunLaw.Pro, Health Planning, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Income Tax, Life, Limitation of Liability, Operation & Governance, Pet Protection, Property Tax, Punishment, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith, Retirement Planning, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
[Central Coast residents: You can safely ignore this article because we are here to help you with comprehensive planning.] Most of our local clients prefer to have the first meeting in person at our office in Morro Bay. After that initial meeting, many of these local...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
12-year-old boy saves father in Wisconsin bear attack by shooting the bear! Story here. Owen knew he had to do something to save his father’s life. “I saw him (the bear) knock him to the ground, and I just saw the black outline and shot over the dog’s back and hit the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
John Lott reports: The just-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) shows violent crime has soared under Biden-Harris. If you look at rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults (the NCVS doesn’t measure murder),...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Honor, News & Commentary
This would appear to be illegal: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) accepted campaign donations from a woman who died several months prior, records that the New York Post obtained revealed Friday. Carol Ann Baker of Elmore died at the age of 77 on December 10, 2023, at a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
This is a brave dad who should be commended for quick action to save his son: The victim was treated for his injuries then released, but had to return to the hospital after experiencing complications with wounds to his eyes. His current condition is not clear, the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
This shocking story is a reminder that not all threats appear as Darth Vader: Police in Minden, Louisiana, revealed on Monday that an 11-year-old boy confessed to the murder of former Mayor Joe Cornelius Sr., age 82, and his 31-year-old daughter, Keisha Miles....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 24, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Entity Formation, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Income Tax, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Tax Planning, Venture Protection
The decision to hire family members for your business is a delicate balancing act that involves both personal and professional considerations. Working with loved ones can create a sense of trust and unity within the workplace and has been shown to increase business...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 7, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Health Planning, Honor, Life
The Ninth Circuit panel in the May and Carralero (“May v Bonta”) sensitive places cases yesterday issued its opinion, written by Judge Graber (i promise to refrain from adding another b to her name), which, if not soon corrected by en banc ruling (either...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith, Spendthrift Children
I’ve written several times lately on disinheritance and more benign alternatives to disinheritance. There is definitely a trend afoot toward greater disinheritance. I’ve noticed this trend in comments from colleagues on our estate planning attorney online...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Gov. Noisome signed AB 262 into law on 9/22/24.] AB 262 is an innocuous sounding bill providing for the study of safety regulations relating to children’s camps. Yet given California’s recent history of attacking gun culture, we can expect this...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The Massachusetts Supreme Court in Commonwealth v Canjura has struck down a ban on switchblade carry as violating the Second Amendment. Following Bruen analysis, the Court could not find any historical analogues from the time of the Founding, or ratification of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The Ninth Circuit in Nguyen v Bonta has reversed its stay on a preliminary injunction against California’s “1-in-30” ban on purchasing more than one firearm in a thirty day period. After only one day of oral arguments, it was clear the State could...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Creditors & Predators, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
There is a wonderful recent story about a Minnesota family that has baptized 27 babies over three generations with a baptismal gown made from the World War II parachute that saved grandpa’s life! I’m always coming up with analogies for trusts and often use...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, Health Planning, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
The brother of Terri Schiavo, famous in the estate planning world for issues surrounding her diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State (PVS), is warning of a possible weakening in Catholic teaching in favor of providing basic care for the incapacitated. The brother,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 4, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, Punishment
This short clip dispels the wild, politically-motivated claims that many in the audience were placed in fear. Though there were several gasps of surprise, there is no evidence of panic, other than one email from a biased political activist: Documents produced by Morro...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Kamala Harris, in a recent speech to the American Federation of Teachers, mocked as “extremists” those who would arm teachers for classroom defense: “While you try to create safe and welcoming places where our children can learn, extremists attack our...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Breitbart reports on CNN report that more Americans are now armed for self-defense than ever before. The report cited data from Injury Prevention journal, which revealed the percentage of gun owners that cited “personal protection” as the reason for getting a gun...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
Elon Musk blames the “woke mind virus” for robbing him of his son whom he considers basically dead at this point because of the transgender cult. Call it cultural marxism, woke, whatever, I have definitely seen a trend among colleagues on estate planning...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment
John Lott has some examples here of recent Hollywood propaganda using anti-gun scripts. This is a longstanding problem I’ve posted on for many years, particularly on bad gun handling. Lott notes (with examples) such shortcomings as failing to portray successful...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
UPDATE: To quell out-of-control rumors and riots resulting from the information vacuum, British judge has released information about the suspect in custody even though he is a minor, a few days short of his 18th birthday. Turns out the suspect is a migrant from...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Life, Venture Protection
Unfortunately, you really do not know exactly how well your estate plan will work until after you are gone. No way around that, but you can improve chances with thorough comprehensive planning and a good maintenance plan. But there is something else you can do: You...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 31, 2024 | Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
About a month ago the video at left was posted by Mark Smith of the Four Boxes Diner channel who, like me and quite a few other attorneys, is a member of the US Supreme Court bar, a fact I know only because he actually introduces himself as such in the first few...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Honor, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Elon Musk announced yesterday he is relocating headquarters for both SpaceX and Xitter from California to Texas, due to concerns over bad new laws and escalating crime in California. In particular, Musk cited concern over Governor Noisome’s signing of AB 1955, a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 21, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
The US Supreme Court today released its 8-1 decision in US v Rahimi, holding that: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 19, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
A new Pew poll finds that Trump voters are FAR more likely (59%) than Biden voters (19%) to say that society should prioritize marriage and having children. That the rate is higher among Trump voters should not surprise anyone. I’ve definitely noticed a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
A few days ago (June 14, 2024) in Garland v Cargill, the US Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that bump stocks are not machine guns. Actually, the Court ruled they are not “machineguns” and the Court uses that single word throughout the opinion as that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 16, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Although most research finds that concealed carry reduces violent crime, several recent studies claim to show that concealed carry increases violent crime. In a new study linked here, Professors Lott and Moody analyze three possible causes for the supposed increase,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 6, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, Probate Admin, Religious Faith, Trust Admin
Here is a quick overview of seven major types of gun trusts: Trust Mill NFA Trust: This is a “simple” (sometimes shockingly simple) “cookie-cutter” type boilerplate trust designed for purchase of firearms and/or suppressors regulated under the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Federal Judge Roger Benitez in the case of Fouts v Bonta recently ruled California’s longtime ban on billy clubs (defined vaguely and potentially including many types of objects, for example any stick intended as a weapon) as an unconstitutional infringement of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Increasingly, young adults are choosing permanent sterilization. Your estate plan can punish them for doing so. (Or reward them, whatever.) Not talking about transgender surgery. Big sterilization issue there obviously, but that was the subject of another recent post....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
More evidence that so-called “standard capacity” is not at all standard, and that so-called “high capacity” is actually standard: NSSF’s Detachable Magazine Report (1990-2021) found an estimated total of 963,772,000 ammunition magazines in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life
Guns are synonymous with violent crime in the minds of many. Why? Constant anti-gun propaganda. People are brainwashed. The reality is that 92% of violent crime does not involve any use of firearms in the commission of the crime. Guns are what violent criminals fear...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
California men who undergo transgender surgery (removing male genitals and replacing with something else) double their risk of suicide. How long will we continue to allow this demonic, macabre nonsense? Most children confused about what sex they are, grow out of that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Despite all the leftist rhetoric against arming teachers, there has never been a school shooting at a school where armed teachers are allowed to carry a firearm for defense of themselves and students. This should not be surprising to anyone who follows mass attacks,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 28, 2024 | Blog, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
Last week the Ninth Circuit denied en banc hearing in Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. v. Bonta, saving youth gun training from destruction by a leftist attack on gun culture. While there has not yet been a decision on the merits of the case, denial of en banc let stand...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Pet Protection, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith
How does all of this make you feel about relying on politics and the courts to protect your family? How can the government be so fickle with your right to life? Maybe it’s time your family takes control, with a F.I.R.S.T. Family Trust? [GOOD NEWS 01/06/2024: On...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, Religious Faith, WorldExaminer.com
[UPDATE: Gun sales and license applications are now surging in Israel. Imagine that. Almost like LA, the day after a riot. Does the same thing happen with fire extinguishers?] Israel gun ownership is only 2%. By contrast, over half of Americans own guns. It is not a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Sen. Graham warns that if there is no presidential immunity, Biden could be prosecuted for murder of girls recently raped by illegals.] New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says Republicans should thank her for all the fundraising they are able to do as...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 25, 2023 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Life, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Religious Faith, Trust Admin, WorldExaminer.com
Presentation by Attorney Dave Duringer clears up confusion over California Gun Trust Planning. What is a Gun Trust? Is a Gun Trust Effective? Is a Gun Trust Necessary? Is a Gun Trust Recommended? YES! Every California gun owner should have one! A regular trust might...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Honor, Life, Probate Admin, Trust Admin
[Hi it’s me Dave Duringer — no, I didn’t “die suddenly” (a concerned relative thought I did because this post came up on google in a way that gave that impression). No one in my family took the clot shot, although a distant cousin of mine...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 15, 2022 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
This 30-second video below shows the “exciting” incident where I held up a piece of plastic: The video below shows a couple of idiots saying they were terrified when I held up a piece of plastic. You can skip the email input, but if you do that...