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 | 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 31, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, News & Commentary
My classmate Kamala Harris claimed back in 2007 as San Francisco District Attorney that the police are able to randomly search homes to check for compliance with San Francisco’s gun storage law. That law served as a model for similar laws later passed by many...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 30, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, News & Commentary
Last month i posted this article regarding Dr Lott’s latest discovery of a surge in violent crime that didn’t jibe with FBI stats. Since then he’s posted several articles here, here, here, here and here, leading up to and following the FBI’s...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 30, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Creditors & Predators, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Protection, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
The IRS has released Revenue Procedure 2024-40, which specifies annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2025. Some highlights: Gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax exemption amounts: $13.99 million (up from $13.61 million) Annual gift tax exclusion (IRC...
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 29, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, News & Commentary, Pet Protection
To you, your pet may be “Fluffy”. To someone else, your pet may be dinner. How big is the threat posed by Asian or Haitian cuisine? Probably not huge, depending where you live. But inflation is a huge threat, affecting everyone to some degree, including...
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 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 | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary
After correcting massive errors found in FBI reports, Dr John Lott reports that at least 35% of mass shootings from 2014 through 2023 were stopped by private armed citizens. (I’m intentionally using the term “mass shooting” even though the studies,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
The stream of reporting continues on knife attacks in gun free Europe. I don’t know if that’s because the frequency of these attacks has increased, or if this is just due to increased media attention, but it’s always interesting to note the...
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 | Aug 31, 2024 | Blog, Life, News & Commentary
I’ve posted several times before on the occasional mountain lion attack in California, but bear attacks are less common here. (A few years ago this young California lady was attacked while taking a nap in her backyard near Los Angeles; of course Canadians see...
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 Protection, Life, News & Commentary
John Lott reports here that the CDC is showing an increase in homicides despite the FBI reporting a sharp drop in murders. Lott has previously criticized FBI data in recent years. One major problem is the large drop in police department reporting to FBI. The only...
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 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, News & Commentary
Ominous report from San Diego: Border Patrol agents took three suspected Palestinian terrorists into custody earlier this month after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California, the New York Post reported. One of the men reportedly had a “salacious...
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 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 | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
An FBI memo sent shortly after the Covenant School shooting urged police not to release the Nashville shooter manifesto to the public. Reasons given: future mass attackers would learn and copy methods; such “legacy tokens” are often misleading and not...
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 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 | Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary
Is violent crime really falling? Police have their hands full depriving you of your right to bear arms. Do you expect them to arrest real criminals that fight back? Not lately, and that is why there is a huge drop in the reporting of violent crime. No point in...
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 5, 2024 | Blog, Firearm Legacy, Life, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
Mass stabbing at Sydney shopping mall. Australia severely restricts the natural right to bear arms, and the result is what you would expect: six killed, many more injured. Stopped by a female police officer’s gun, but not in time to prevent horrific death and...
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 | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
My daughter, Ayn, will be heading for law school this Fall! She was offered a very nice package covering most expenses of attending the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Most estate planning attorneys like me, especially those of us...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 4, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Fortune, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
National Small Bus. United v. Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-1448-LCB (N.D. Ala. Mar. 1, 2024) On Friday, March 1, 2024, in National Small Bus. United v. Yellen, Judge Liles C. Burke of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled via memorandum...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Life, News & Commentary
[UPDATE: Ninth Circus issued a stay today of the injunction by Judge Benitez. Not totally unexpected, but this particular circus is fast losing credibility. The State has ZERO chance of winning on the merits under the text/history test mandated by Bruen. Furthermore,...
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...
