HOW DO I GO ABOUT BREAKING A WILL? What happens when you expect to receive an inheritance from a loved one, and find out that your loved one has unexpectedly left her estate to others? Can you challenge the will in court? The short answer is “yes.” A will contest is a lawsuit in Chancery […]

In the Matter of the Disciplinary Proceedings Against Shepard (Wash. No. 200,720-1, Sept. 9, 2010). Washington’s high court found an attorney who participated in a so-called “trust mill” aided in the unauthorized practice of law and suspended him for two years. The attorney in this case entered into a business arrangement with Steven Cuccia, a non-lawyer who […]

Say, what? That’s right, your business succession plan. You are probably like most folks who spend hours and years building their businesses into a success, but spend little or no time contemplating how and when they will retire from the business, or who will own and run the business after they are retired, deceased or […]