loss

I Want To Disappear: The Power of Grief

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As much as I love writing about the law, it’s important to sometimes take a moment to acknowledge the people that it affects. I’ve noticed that over the past few months I’ve worked with several clients who felt motivated to revisit their estate planning after the death of someone they knew. But, in each case, the death didn’t impact the planning; the deceased wasn’t a beneficiary or trustee of the….

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Digital Assets: How Advisors are Changing the World

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While I enjoy writing about the legal aspects of digital assets in estate planning and administration, I don’t think that I have spent enough time focusing on the work of the wonderful advisors in this space: technology consultants, lawyers and policy analysts among them. The efforts of these advisors have helped shape the law, internationally, in an area where legal guidance has desperately been needed. As time goes on, I….

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Estate Administration, Estate Planning, International

We are all feeling something…. different

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Today’s newsfeed story: “It’s just another pandemic Monday”  Thank you Heather Mallick, Monday January 17, 2022.  I guess we are all feeling ‘something’. Yesterday was my father’s birthday.  He would have turned 93 if he hadn’t died when he was 69.  I find it interesting how we like to do that- – provide an age or number as if the person was still with us.  I guess they are- if….

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Caregiving

Monday, the day after yesterday.

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While the sun did shine  yesterday, it  was still a difficult day for many of us. Not just because we can’t be outdoors, or play golf or volleyball but because for many, we continue to be restricted from seeing, and hugging our mothers. It is the 2nd  Mother’s  Day of being restricted; some distanced by emergency stay at home orders and  some  like me, separated by death. Another of the….

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Elder Care

The First of the Firsts

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Everything is different since Covid began and the activities we used to take for granted are now being sorely missed. Family celebrations are so important and there were many that could not be celebrated together. This past Thanksgiving’s meal, for example, was enjoyed as a take out dinner instead of making a turkey for 4 when it is usually at least 14 of us around the dining room table. Covid….

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Mementos and good memories

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We will all experience loss of a loved one and while my loss may be more recent than some, it can make these occurrences feel more vivid. Over the weekend I received the many boxes that I had packed up from my mother’s apartment.  While I started to sort them through I was overcome by the scent of her favorite perfume. It was reassuring and familiar and yet quite emotional…..

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