Estate Planning Awareness

Imagine your 10-year-old child has a lingering pain in her big toe.  You would get in to see your regular doctor as soon as possible.  If needed, the doctor may recommend that you see a [...]

As we kick off 2021, Baton Rouge estate planning lawyers are encouraging their clients to reflect on legal changes that may have gone overlooked in the past year. Last January, the Setting Every [...]

A power of attorney is a legal agreement that allows one adult, the agent, to make legal and financial decisions on behalf of another, the principal. People create power of attorney documents [...]

One of the most difficult decisions that parents of minor children have to make when creating their estate plans is choosing the person(s) they would want to raise their children if they were [...]

Creating an estate plan in 2019 might have looked a little bit like this: you and your spouse or partner, perhaps along with your adult children, would make an appointment at the office of Baton [...]

Working with an experienced Baton Rouge will and trust lawyer to create a comprehensive estate plan can seem like a daunting process. Let’s face it: the decisions you have to make, the [...]

In entertainment news recently, the name Britney Spears has made a resurgence. There is a large following of fans calling to #FreeBritney. Spears, a 38-year-old Louisiana native, is under a [...]

As the coronavirus continues to impact life as we know it here in the United States, the most common question we’ve been asked during the course of the pandemic is whether an existing estate plan [...]

The federal government has determined that tens of thousands of people with disabilities are eligible to have their student loan debt discharged, but due to the burdensome process involved, only [...]

To protect its workers and the public during the coronavirus pandemic, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has suspended face-to-face service at its field offices and hearings offices [...]