Protect Your Rights.Hank Weatherby of Weatherby & Associates, PC, is a leading estate planning attorney in Avon CT and the greater Hartford area. Estate planning is important if you own property and have heirs. The process of estate planning protects yourself and your loved ones. It allows you to ensure that your property will go […]
Protect Your Estate.As a leading Connecticut estate planning lawyer, Attorney Hank Weatherby helps individuals manage their assets. Estate planning mainly concerns protecting yourself and your loved ones. Attorney Weatherby has served the Suffield and greater Hartford CT area for over twenty years. Appointing a trusted individual to make decisions on your behalf should you become incapacitated […]
Planning for Your Family.Attorney Hank Weatherby is a leading estate planning lawyer in Granby CT and the greater Hartford region. Many people assume only the wealthy ought to be concerned about their assets. Planning ahead of time will give you more control over your assets, and minimize loss to probate costs and taxes. Many families are […]
If you were diagnosed with dementia, what kind of care would you want to receive? Dr. Barak Gaster has created a dementia-specific advance directive document that addresses that difficult question. The document emphasizes patient education by outlining what patients are likely to experience in each stage of the disease. Journalist Paula Span recently published an […]
Unfortunately, financial exploitation of older individuals is an all too common occurrence in our country. The National Council on Aging estimates that as many as 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 60 has experienced some sort of elder abuse. And what many people don’t realize is that a large portion of those incidents […]
When we ask our clients if they would ever want to be artificially kept alive on a machine or the like, they almost invariably answer NO. We have all seen too many horror stories of individuals who end up living a sad existence in a vegetative state for a prolonged period of time. Almost all […]
Long term care planning is complicated. When we help guide our clients through that process we must consider many factors, including things like amounts of current and future assets and income, likely expenses, health conditions of various family members, and other family dynamics. So when a client has a long term care insurance policy it […]
In the design work we perform for our clients, we often use various types of trusts. There are many things a trust can do including helping to address issues related to incapacity, protecting your assets from creditors, and avoiding or minimizing hassles related to the probate process after you die. But one aspect of trusts […]
Supreme Court Says Retirement Plans From Church Affiliated Organizations Not Covered by Employee Retirement Security ActThe United States Supreme Court recently considered the issue of whether or not federal ERISA law applies to retirement plans sponsored by church-affiliated non-profit organizations that run hospitals and health care facilities. In a June 2017 ruling it held that […]
There are a number of reasons why people avoid hiring a lawyer to assist them in their estate planning. Lawyers can be perceived as expensive and a hassle to deal with. Frankly, some people simply find dealing with an attorney stressful. And there certainly are some things that can be taken care of without legal […]