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 | 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, 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 29, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Entity Formation, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Income Tax, Tax Planning
Estate reduction surgery may be more urgent than you think. Understandably, a lot of folks are sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see what happens in November — not only in the presidential race, but in the congressional races that will determine the balance...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2024 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
The CRPA on September 19, 2024, petitioned for en banc review of the Ninth Circuit panel’s decision regarding preliminary injunctive relief in May v Bonta (written by Judge Graber aka Grabber) oppressively curtailing the right to bear arms in California. En banc...
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, Business Succession, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Venture Protection
The American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2024 (AHEMA) is a giant $5 trillion tax increase now before both houses of Congress which has the potential, if Democrats end up with enough control after elections this year, to radically change estate planning. These...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Probate Admin, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
In a major unanimous decision (Connelly v US) sure to cause revision of many business succession plans, the US Supreme Court earlier this month on June 6, 2024, rejected use of a corporate redemption obligation as an estate deduction. While the Court pointed out in a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 26, 2022 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Breitbart reports: Japan has some of the most “restrictive” gun controls in the world – legal provisions that appeared not to prevent the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo at the hands of an apparent lone gunman on Friday. It was a homemade shotgun....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 18, 2019 | Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary
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by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 6, 2019 | Dying Embarrassed
Not much time for blogging lately, but this one definitely belongs in our “Dying Embarrassed” category: A billionaire diamond trader has died after ‘suffering a heart attack’ during a penis enlargement operation in Paris. Ehud Arye...
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 8, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
We all love and R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha for her work and wisdom about life, but she “died embarrassed” in at least one respect: no estate plan! There is so much potential to harm family when one fails to plan properly. She clearly had time to plan, and was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 1, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, News & Commentary
Hit-and-run crash deaths are rising nationwide, and pedestrians and bicyclists account for close to 70% of the victims, according to a new report, as more people cycle to work and motor-vehicle fatalities are at a near-decade-high level. The number of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 21, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
Horror movie? A man died after lodging his head in the footrest of his electronic seat at a movie theater: the man had dropped his phone and was trying to retrieve it in between the theater’s Gold Class seats at the end of the film. The three Gold Class rooms...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 9, 2018 | Dying Embarrassed, Firearm Training, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
According to an LA Times article here, a top local realtor figured prominently in the recent Laguna Woods shooting: CBS2/KCAL9’s Stacey Butler spoke with Jennifer Heflin, who said the shooting was prompted in part by an argument over remodeling plans. Heflin,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 27, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Lewis had another child out of wedlock, who calls herself Suzan Lewis (née Minoret), whom he never acknowledged despite her parentage being confirmed by DNA tests. She isn’t mentioned among those disinherited, presumably because to do so would require Lewis to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 24, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Horror Stories
I would hope most people by now know that the Texas church massacre was stopped by a good guy with a gun, Stephen Willeford, and that the gun he used to stop the attack was the oft-maligned AR-15. Some on the Left are so crazy they actually say Willeford should...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
Maggots on the floor of the facility’s garage and garage door. Unrefrigerated human bodies were stored in the un-air-conditioned garage, some for more than 90 days and up to five months. The building smelled of decomposing bodies. Unsanitary preparation room...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
HUNTINGTON BEACH – A 26-year-old man on a rented paddleboard who was pulled from the water in Huntington Harbour after a 25-minute search on Tuesday afternoon has died.The man, who did not know how to swim and was not using a personal flotation device, was...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 22, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 at the age of 36, leaving her personal effects to acting coach Lee Strasberg and indirectly to his third wife — who Marilyn never knew but who inherited those valuable goodies when Strasberg passed. Source: Marilyn Monroe’s bad...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Firearm Training
Some collect, some train. But Bernstein was hit by tragedy in 2012 when his wife was killed at their rifle range while filming a Discovery Channel reality show. Terry died when she was hit by two smoke bombs travelling at 150mph while being used to create a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship
Jefferson died broke but left a legacy of books and education benefiting the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia. See Jefferson’s will here: Last Will and Testament | Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection
Washington is known as the only founding father who emancipated all of his slaves, but actually he only emancipated one outright. His slaves had intermarried with Martha’s dower slaves, in whom Martha had only a life estate because her first husband died...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 3, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed
An appeal court in Cantabria heard that she had made the leap on hearing the instructor say “No jump” but his pronounciation was so bad that she likely thought he said: “Now Jump”, the judge wrote in a ruling reported by Europapress. Source: Bungee...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 28, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Firearm Training, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
Some people should not have guns. She said Ruiz also “had plenty of guns. He liked guns.” Source: Minnesota woman charged with killing boyfriend in video stunt – StarTribune.com
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 14, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
After Clarke made a left turn near the end of the orchard, Debard was unable to “stabilize herself” and was thrown from the cart. The two wine glasses she was holding shattered and Debard fell upon the fragments. She died at the scene, and Clarke...
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 | Feb 28, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
SINGAPORE — “Help me take a Snapchat video and I’ll jump.”Those were the last words of 17-year-old Jonathan Chow before he vaulted over a barrier at Orchard Central and fell four floors to his death last Friday Source: Teen who fell to death from Orchard...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 28, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories
The chilling image shows four women stranded on a rock in rapids seconds before a dam’s floodgates were opened, sweeping one of the girls to her death.The group was reportedly seen holding selfie sticks when the five-minute warning siren for the floodgates...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
A 17-year-old photo daredevil died when he accidentally fell from the roof of a nine-story building while posing for a thrilling picture. The teen was reportedly addicted to posting risky, dangerous photos to his Instagram page. Source: Teen thrill-seeker dies...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 10, 2017 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
In the provocatively titled report “Me, Myself and My Killfie,” the team reportedly found a total of 127 deaths from 2014 to September 2016 that were linked to someone taking or attempting to take a selfie.The number of deaths per year has risen...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 25, 2016 | Archived, Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
He probably wanted to go before Trump took office — and died happy knowing that Obama hates the US more than anyone. (I wonder how Fidel’s parents feel — about his horrible legacy being theirs.) Fidel Castro, Cuba’s former president and leader...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 31, 2016 | Asset Protection, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Probate Admin, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to go back and fix an estate plan before death or incapacity of the grantor? Protective Law Corporation will be very pleased to offer such post-mortem estate planning, and we will add it to our pricing sheet just as soon as the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 30, 2016 | Asset Protection, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Over $300,000,000 and no planning. That’s embarrassing.
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 8, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Billionaire Howard Hughes died in 1976 at the age of 70. He was known as an eccentric. However, he died without a will, which is not eccentric but unfortunately all too normal. A will of his was supposedly discovered at the headquarters of the Mormon Church in Salt...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 8, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
If you are going to be shot to death by an extramarital lover, the least you could do is make a will to provide for your family. Steve McNair didn’t even do that. Don’t be a McNair. One notorious example of this concept comes from the estate of the late...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 8, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Pablo Picasso died at the age of 91 in 1973. He left behind a large fortune but because he left no will, it took 6 years to settle his estate at a cost of $30 million to determine finally that his assets would be divided up among six heirs. Don’t be a Picasso....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 5, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Sonny Bono’s estate planning was even more embarrassing than his death skiing into a tree. A political as well as pop figure, with some messy personal relationships, he should have had better planning — or at least some planning. But he had no will and of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 5, 2016 | Asset Protection, Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Bob Marley’s estate continues to generate significant revenue decades after his death in 1981. Marley died intestate even though he knew he had cancer and lingered for nearly 8 months. Dozens fought over his estate, worth a reported $30 million. If attacked, do...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 3, 2016 | Asset Protection, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Hendrix left no will. He fathered two children out of wedlock but his own father, Al Hendrix, legally denied them any claims on the estate, to which he became sole heir. A gardener by trade without any knowledge of the music business, Al Hendrix hired a lawyer who in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 2, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Because he left no effective will or estate plan, Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s longtime partner was not entitled to the fortune from his Millennium series of books (and the movies based on them). He lived with Eva Gabrielsson for 30 of his short 50 years on...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 30, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Amy Winehouse lived fast and died young — without a will or any other estate planning, of course. Moreover, parents pressured her to divorce her husband yet the romance rekindled and friends say she would have wanted to leave something for her soulmate. Too bad...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 29, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
The smooth, baritone Barry White never got divorced from his wife even though he was living with someone else. Plus he failed to make a will. All of that added up to years of conflict between his ex-wife, wife and girlfriend. If attacked, do you want to be Victor or...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 28, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Tony Curtis had six kids from six marriages, left them nothing in his will except a legacy of litigation. 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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 28, 2016 | Asset Protection, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Horror Stories, Tax Planning
Bad planning led to $40 million estate tax bill forcing heirs to sell stock, Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. 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...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 28, 2016 | Charity, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories
Jackie O’s estate plan provided for an elaborate trust that was supposed to have generated funds for a charity and then give her grandchildren an inheritance. But although her estate was initially valued at $200 million, the actual value dropped to about $18 million,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 28, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
King left a great legacy in civil rights before his assassination at the age of 39 in 1968, but he didn’t leave a will or estate plan. That blunder left his family grappling for control of his image and financial legacy even now, decades after his death. If attacked,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 20, 2016 | Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Horror Stories, Probate Admin
Talk about long probates! President Washington wrote his Last Will and Testament himself, without consulting any “professional character.” The will is dated July 9, 1799, less than six months before his death on December 14, 1799. …. Probate lasted...