by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 11, 2016 | Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Health Planning, Retirement Planning
Good article, points out some real problems: “Shooting is about his only interest in life,” said JoAnne Schnepp, who has avoided broaching the topic with her husband, though she knows his physical and mental abilities are likely to decline. “Then I will have to look...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 9, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection
Pretty much as expected. NRA really blundered in failing to support open carry here, in the hope that the absence of open carry would protect concealed carry. Wrong. Preserve open carry and the elites will rush to help you conceal it with all alacrity and celerity....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Family Protection, Religious Faith
The good news is that it might possibly qualify them for a CCW: Out of 7,848 people identified as being in the U.S. alone, 1,445 were listed as having addresses in California, 643 in Florida, 341 in Washington, 333 in Texas, 331 in Illinois, and 290 in New York....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Asset Protection, Creditors & Predators, Family Protection
News9.com – Oklahoma City, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports | Yet another reason to avoid outright distributions in your estate plan: It’s called an ERAD, or Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, and state police began using 16 of them...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Asset Protection, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning
Here are the six primary benefits of a lifetime discretionary trust: 1. Protection From Liabilities An inheritance that goes directly into the beneficiary’s pocket is readily available to pay the beneficiary’s liabilities from a car accident, in bankruptcy, or after a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Charity
Issues of control are often significant to the wealth-creating generation of a family (usually, although not always, older members). Often, in working with families, we hear wealth-creators express doubts about the capacity of rising generations to handle money...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Family Protection, Religious Faith
Talking about consent might not be sexy. But with 2.2 million Brits saying they’ve had violent sexual fantasies in the BSFR statistics, it needs to be said. And it seems like many men haven’t got the message. Source: Have we forgotten how to have ‘normal’...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 8, 2016 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection
Marriage outside of one’s political party may have implications for elections. New research from a Yale University political scientist indicates that across the country, couples of missed political persuasion are less likely to vote. Considering factors such as age,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 6, 2016 | Family Protection
Experts cite several possible reasons that drug overdose deaths and suicides are occurring far more often among middle-aged whites than other groups. They say whites have had an easier time getting access to the powerful painkillers that have been the root of the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 6, 2016 | News & Commentary, Retirement Planning
The lawsuit argues that the DOL rule uses an overly broad definition of “fiduciary,” one that is very different from that used in securities laws. It also contends that the agency has no regulatory or enforcement authority over Individual Retirement Accounts; that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 6, 2016 | Business Succession, Venture Protection
Too often, advisors consider a buy/sell agreement to be a succession plan. Many advisors feel they are covered if they identify a buyer to take the reins in the case of their unexpected demise or an involuntary exit from the business. But a succession plan is not...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 6, 2016 | Asset Protection, Retirement Planning
Let’s start by focusing on the income of the top 1 percent of Americans, compared to that of the top 10 percent. As of 2014, a household needed an annual income of at least $423,090 to be in the first group, about 3.5 times the threshold for the second group,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 5, 2016 | Health Planning
Doctors have reversed the symptoms of stroke in a major medical breakthrough.Patients regained the ability to walk, speak and have a normal family life, thanks to a procedure requiring only local anaesthetic and a single night in hospital. …. Previous trials...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 5, 2016 | Asset Protection, Retirement Planning
Which living artists sell for top prices at auction? Based on five years’ worth of auction sales from the artnet Auction Price Database, we bring you these exclusive lists, which includes updated data from the same roundup last year. Two sets of data are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 4, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy
Feel free to share Source: Share CPRC’s new Infographic: Data on Mass Public Shootings, Views on Gun Ownership & Gun Free Zones etc… – Crime Prevention Research CenterCrime Prevention Research Center If attacked, do you want to be Victor or...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 4, 2016 | Firearm Training
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 3, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy
It seems that people occasionally ignore those cute little signs of a gun with a slash through it indicating the area is supposedly a gun-free zone and bring in guns. This happens especially when there are no valiant TSA guards with X-ray machines guaranteeing their...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 1, 2016 | Family Protection, News & Commentary
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Health Planning
A standard brain scanning technique is showing promise for helping doctors distinguish between patients in a vegetative state and those with hidden signs of consciousness. Source: News from The Associated Press If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Family Protection, Religious Faith
A 70-year-old Christian woman has been stripped naked, beaten and paraded through the streets by a mob of around 300 Muslim men in a village in southern Egypt. Source: Elderly Christian woman stripped naked and paraded through streets by mob | Africa | News | The...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Retirement Planning, Tax Planning, Venture Protection
What Is a Tax Inversion? A tax inversion involves a corporate deal between a U.S. corporation and a foreign corporation. For this purpose, the foreign corporation purchases the U.S. corporation. These deals sometimes involve a purchase of the U.S. corporation’s stock...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection, Religious Faith
Eleven states will sue the Obama administration over a controversial federal guidance requiring public schools and universities to allow transgender students to use the restrooms, showers, and overnight accommodations of the opposite biological sex. The states filing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Retirement Planning
The uber wealthy aren’t better investors than the merely affluent, and many make the exact same mistakes as those with far lower net worth. According to a new survey from the deVere Group of 652 high-net-worth clients worldwide, more than a quarter of them (27...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Retirement Planning
Means testing to attain Social Security benefits may be on the docket for the future.Those of us who counsel clients on Social Security understand firsthand the long-term effect of Congress’ recent elimination of the File and Suspend and Restricted Application claim...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
Good advice, and not just for gun dealers: Your typical customers display consistent behaviors and have consistent conversations, even when they’re first-time firearm purchases. When you don’t see or hear that consistency, trust your gut!Those of us in the retail...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 31, 2016 | Firearm Training
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 30, 2016 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Religious Faith
Really good article: Imagine you are looking for a parking spot at the mall on a busy weekend. You finally find someone pulling out of a spot, and once it is empty, you pull into it. But because there is a lot of traffic, you didn’t see another driver who had been...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 30, 2016 | Firearm Legacy
The folks at CalGuns appear to have swerved again into the topic of Firearm Legacy, or close to it anyway. We’ll see if the conversation takes root. If only they put a fraction of their effort into real legacy… This is a great idea, and actually one of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 29, 2016 | Firearm Training
Hmm — as long as quick access is not at the expense of secure storage. Rising gun sales have triggered a new trend in furniture fashion — coffee tables, cabinets, headboards and hutches with secret compartments for firearms. Source: Furniture firepower:...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 29, 2016 | Archived, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 29, 2016 | Firearm Legacy
Early last week, school officials at Southeast Elementary in Brighton, Colo. suspended a 5-year-old kindergartner for bringing a “fake weapon” to school. Illustrating the fanatical manner in which school weapons policies are enforced throughout the country, the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 27, 2016 | Firearm Training
This is an amazing story. Most of us who carry hope we’ll never have to use it, but if we must that a good result will obtain. The famous Heimlich Maneuver is even used in firearm training as an example of the good you can do if adrenaline can access some actual...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2016 | Archived, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training
For our neighbors in Newport Beach at least, today is officially John Wayne Day: Newport Beach council members voted 7-0 to recognize Wayne, one of the city’s most famous residents, with a John Wayne Day. Councilman Kevin Muldoon proposed the resolution, calling Wayne...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 26, 2016 | Firearm Training
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, News & Commentary, Orange County Events
“The safest place in this country to be is at a Trump rally,” said Donald Trump after security kicked out a troublemaker during Mr Trump’s comments on the Second Amendment at today’s rally in Anaheim. If attacked, do you want to be...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 25, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, News & Commentary
Glad FPC made this video as these particular bills (SB 1332 and AB 1511) are at the top of my kill list as dangers to Firearm Legacy planning. I am working right now on a custom-drafted corporate grantor gun trust for a Boy Scout council up in Northern California and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Estate Planning
With its return on April 24, it’s time to check in again on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The show not only entertains its devoted fans, it also provides a practical guide to succession planning do’s and don’ts. The (spoiler alert) deaths of Ned Stark, Joffrey...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection
As keynote speaker at the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast held in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Cardinal Sarah said that modern society has descended to the point that “good becomes evil, beauty is ugly, love becomes the satisfaction of sexual primal...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Estate Planning
Client and prospect meetings need to include a review of the estate plan: Does it still work as expected? Is the trust funded? Have beneficiary designations been completed? Did any laws change? Have family or finances changed? How old are the documents? Was there a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Career Preparation, Family Protection
This should make it easier to get through that stack of paralegal and intern resumes over the next few summers: In a move spearheaded by environmentalists, the Portland Public Schools board unanimously approved a resolution aimed at eliminating doubt of climate change...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
Family under siege — canaries in the British coal mine: Alarming figures uncovered in a Daily Star Sunday investigation reveal offences by females have rocketed in five years.Greater Manchester Police has seen a 270% rise.The figures from the Metropolitan Police...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Retirement Planning
From vision and hearing impairments to muscle loss, the Genworth R70i Aging Experience allows people to step into a future version of themselves to experience the physical effects of aging. Take a tour of the suit to learn more about its features. If attacked, do you...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Income Tax, Tax Planning
Colorado and Maine may raise taxes on top earners, while Minnesota is looking to apply the state’s Social Security tax to high incomes to care for senior citizens and people with disabilities. California voters could extend by 12 years a soon-to-expire income-tax...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Archived, Estate Planning, Tax Planning
The 2016 U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth® survey explores who the wealthy are, where they came from, how they built and are sustaining their wealth and what they want to do with it. The survey revealed common success traits that create a picture of modern day...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Charity
Charitable LLCs A charitable LLC, such as the Initiative or the Emerson Collective (run by Steve Jobs’ widow) is legally no different from a for-profit LLC. As such, it’s governed only by applicable corporate law, whereas a charity would further be subject to state...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Archived, Family Protection
The Obama administration has gone into overdrive in the last two months, pushing administrative policy changes to make it easier for ex-convicts to rejoin society, but at the same time sparking concern that reforms will increase crime and jeopardize safety. Source:...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 24, 2016 | Health Planning
Eating curry at least once a week may help to stave off dementia, new research suggests. Source: Eating curry may help fight off dementia, new study suggests If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 22, 2016 | Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Religious Faith
33% in favor? The world is going insane. A few weeks ago it would have been difficult to find anyone in favor of this nonsense. The federal government has ordered all public schools in America to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 22, 2016 | Defensive Gun Use, Firearm Training
“Don’t rely on luck. Rely on training.” If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 19, 2016 | Firearm Training
If attacked, do you want to be Victor or Victim? At SacredHonor.US, we hate it when people die embarrassed. And at Protect.FM, we believe good estate plans protect families. We make it easy for your family to attain the comfort of skill at arms. David R. Duringer, JD,...