by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 14, 2017 | Firearm Legacy
So the mass-shooter-of-the-day is today again, as it so often is, a Democrat. This one, a little more notorious perhaps since he was a Bernie supporter and specifically targeted Republican congressmen. Plus it seems he was a decent shot. And there is no indication, at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 13, 2017 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy
I recently encountered a brainwashed anti-gun millennial and gave her this snappy response: Millennial: “I’m not into guns.” [Cold tone makes it clear she hates not only guns, but their owners.] American: “SOME people should NOT have guns. But...
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 | Jun 7, 2017 | Pet Protection
What is your pet saying? “Secure my retirement with a pet trust.”
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 29, 2017 | Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
This is a solemn day of mourning, and remembrance of those brave souls who fought and died in service of our country. It is also a day to joyfully celebrate their legacy, enriched by their spent blood. What is legacy? To many it means only money, but an...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 29, 2017 | Estate Planning, Family Protection
These results are from the 2012 Allianz Life American Legacies Pulse Study* which surveyed baby boomers (age 47 to 66) and “elders” (age 72 and older). Allianz Life conducted a similar study in 2005. Interestingly, despite the financial crises that occurred...
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 26, 2017 | Family Protection
The family is a society whose primary end is to transmit life and to raise children. Because it is the source of life and of new human relationships, it constitutes the fundamental and irreplaceable cell of society. All the classical philosophers and political...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2017 | Firearm Training
The CPRC tracks permit numbers across the country and publishes an annual report on concealed carrying in the United States. As of late last year, the number of Americans with carry permits hit the 15 million mark, and the current estimate of permittees is at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2017 | Career Preparation, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship
“What spoils kids is not letting them taste the natural consequences of their mistakes. When we give them the impression that their choices don’t have natural, logical consequences and we rescue them from those — when we say, ‘Hey, you do that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2017 | Firearm Training
Sometimes you might be able to identify a suicide bomber before he detonates. Here’s what to look for: – Clothing that is bulky or excessive for the weather (to hide the bomb) – Hands hidden (possibly holding the switch to detonate the bomb)...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2017 | Firearm Training
Both cops and armed citizens need to be aware of the fact that if we choose to take a shot against a terrorist wearing a bomb vest or belt, we should alter our traditional target areas. If we shoot for the body, we will likely create the very type of explosion...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 17, 2017 | Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Probate Admin, Trust Admin
The trusts I draft are usually pretty thick, thicker than clients expect. But no matter how thick the trust, the plan can fail if spouses are not in agreement on the underlying character of the property (separate or community). This might have been the case with the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 17, 2017 | Asset Protection, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Spendthrift Children
“Great wealth transfer” has joined “silver tsunami” in the lexicon of aging America. It refers to the wave of wealth, estimated to be in the trillions, which will flow from the oldest generation in the coming decades. Yet evidence suggests that many Americans...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 17, 2017 | Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship
“Looking at the numbers, 78% feel the next generation is not financially responsible enough to handle inheritance,” says Chris Heilmann, U.S. Trust’s chief fiduciary executive.And 64% admit they have disclosed little to nothing about their...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 16, 2017 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 15, 2017 | Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship
Yikes. If ever there was a need for financial mentorship, it’s now. And yes, you can do that with your estate plan. How millennials feel about money and financial issues, in eight charts Source: Millennial Money Matters
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...
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
Great article. Personally, I call my practice “family protection” law and the author appears to be on the same page as me. In its most fundamental state, estate planning should support the family (or the individual) first, and thereafter concern...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 15, 2017 | Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Punishment, Religious Faith
Among affluent families, the disconnect between what their current wealth transfer planning does, and what they want their planning to do, is staggering. While 75 percent of wealthy parents say it’s important to leave an inheritance to the next generation, only...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 24, 2017 | Charity, Estate Planning, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning
And for those with qualified retirement plans, it may be time to seriously consider charitable remainder unitrust (CRUT) planning. In the case of qualified long-term appreciated property, outright gifts can be used to offset other taxable income, while bypassing the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 23, 2017 | Asset Protection, Career Preparation, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Spendthrift Children
Are 72 virgins really enough? What if they turn out to be 72 Virginians? If you are bound and determined to blow yourself into smithereens or commit some other irrevocable act of terror, at least buy some life insurance so your (surviving) descendants can live like...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 23, 2017 | Asset Protection, Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Spendthrift Children
Among 25- to 34-year-olds living at home, one in four is neither enrolled in school nor working Source: A Quarter of Millennials Who Live at Home Don’t Work — or Study – Bloomberg
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 21, 2017 | Asset Protection, Career Preparation, Retirement Planning
Parents of young children usually have more places that their money needs to go than they have funds to cover every current and future obligation. You can help them sort out where to put each and every dollar each month so that short-term concerns are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 20, 2017 | Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection
The Number 1 living arrangement today for Americans in the 18-to-34 age bracket, according to the Census Bureau, is to reside without a spouse in their parents’ home. Source: Census: More Americans 18-to-34 Now Live With Parents Than With...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 12, 2017 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
The state Division of Workers’ Compensation website showed Anderson had filed two cases alleging he was hurt between Dec. 1, 2012, and Oct. 14, 2014, while working for Cushman & Wakefield Inc. Records showed he said he had injured his head, neck, arm, back and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 11, 2017 | Asset Protection, Career Preparation, Creditors & Predators, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Spendthrift Children
Regardless of the tax implications, there are several nontax reasons to set up a dynasty trust. First, you can designate the beneficiaries of the trust assets spanning multiple generations. Typically, you might provide for the assets to follow a line of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 10, 2017 | Firearm Training
UPDATE: One of the kids died, so MORE blood on the gun grabbers’ hands. Some sort of domestic dispute between the teacher and her husband who easily entered the school with a concealed handgun because “concealed is concealed” and apparently...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
A woman shot and killed an attempted robber Thursday afternoon after he and one other man tried to rob three people in her apartment. Source: Woman shoots, kills man trying to rob her | KSDK.com
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2017 | Family Protection, News & Commentary
Communist Party Education Workers Congress, 1918: “We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists. … We must remove the children from the crude influence of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Hard to be certain based on a short news account, and I am not very familiar with Louisiana law on self-defense. Perhaps due to its proximity to Texas it allows use of deadly force in some situations to protect property. But that is definitely not allowed in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
I guess today is the day for reporting pharmacist DGU’s. Have to point out here that warning shots are almost NEVER a good idea and usually indicate a lack of training. Extremely reckless in an urban or suburban environment especially. Deputies say he...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 9, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
Why did the homeowner let the intruder get close enough to strike him in the head with a crowbar? Whether the crowbar was visible or not, DISTANCE IS YOUR FRIEND. That is the main reason God and Sam Colt gave us guns. LUCKY he got a shot off. LUCKY the thigh...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 8, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
APPLE VALLEY — An alleged armed robbery at a local pharmacy was foiled when one suspect was shot by the pharmacist Friday evening, authorities said, but a second suspect remains at large. Source: Alleged armed robber shot; second suspect still at...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 8, 2017 | Career Preparation, Family Protection, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning
The kids can work their way through college like we did. ‘Should I dip into my retirement account to pay for college?’People do it, but most financial professionals advise against it. At the very least, experts say, you should limit such withdrawals, so as not...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 7, 2017 | Religious Faith
Studies have shown that most of the famous atheists of history: [Albert] Camus, [Jean-Paul] Sartre, [Friedrich] Nietzsche, [Sigmund] Freud, Voltaire, [H.G.] Wells, [Ludwig] Feuerbach, all had a father that either died when they were young, divorced their mother...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 7, 2017 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy
Disney screens visitors with metal detectors, pretending it can protect them against violence. What about undetectable ceramic knives? Or this woman’s hands? A Michigan woman was arrested Wednesday night, accused of choking a high school girl during a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 7, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary
The Senate confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Friday morning, thrilling conservatives and angering liberals who expect him to be in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat he will take.The 54-45 vote was also a victory for...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 5, 2017 | Charity, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Tragic, tear-jerking story — but try as they might to cast her untimely death in the heroic cloth of charitable enterprise, there remains something embarrassing about dying while stuffing your mouth full of pancakes. Apparently according to the updated...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 2, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
Wednesday’s break-in happened around 1:00 a.m. This time Croft was home in his bed. A self-described light sleeper, Croft said he heard the two men break-in and soon found them inside his bedroom. The burglars ordered him to stay still. Instead he grabbed...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 2, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use
The door quickly gave way, he said, and two men — dressed in all black, with hoods — rushed in. One was holding a two-foot metal pipe. A Marine veteran, Sant said he began scuffling with the men in the living room.VIDEOSNC Rolls Back ‘Bathroom Bill’...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 2, 2017 | Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Once they identify a house that looks empty, they send one person to knock on the door, Dunn said. If no one responds, other gang members break through a side door or smash a window. If no alarm sounds, they head immediately to the master bedroom. In most...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 31, 2017 | Firearm Legacy
Fleming had been a private in the London Scottish Regiment of the Volunteer Force since 1900,[3] and had been a member of the rifle club at the medical school. The captain of the club, wishing to retain Fleming in the team, suggested that he join the research...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 30, 2017 | Family Protection
All laws were followed when she purchased items: FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) – The father of the teen student who authorities say was plotting a mass shooting at Catoctin High School in Frederick County reportedly turned his daughter in after finding a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 30, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Training
The legislature needs to correct this and reaffirm the rights of Florida’s gun owners and concealed carriers by fixing the law to shift the burden of proof in immunity hearings to the state and allows judges to consider self-defense claims at sentencing. A...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 29, 2017 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
Mainstream medicine simply won’t go here, however, as compelling as the evidence is. So “we the people” need to guide our nation and communities back to sense about the perils of homosexuality and gender confusion, especially to our children. Source:...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 28, 2017 | Archived, Firearm Legacy
From a friend, Charles Nichols: Federal Judge John A. Kronstadt has set a deadline of 11:59 PM, May 1st, 2017, for the NRA to amend its lawsuit seeking concealed carry permits to challenge California’s bans on openly carrying firearms in public for self-defense. After...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 28, 2017 | Firearm Training
Full metal jacketed rounds are the usual “load out” of any gun owner when he hits the range. They’re cheap, effective, and great for improving marksmanship. Defensive rounds, on the whole, are more expensive per case. This causes a natural hesitation in the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 28, 2017 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training