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06 Dec Is It Time to Redefine “Fully Vaccinated”?

Posted at 15:34h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Nearly two years of Covid, and the emerging variants indicate that it’s not going away anytime soon. We’ve adapted our business models and facilities to create safe environments. At Guideway, the uncertainty of this pandemic has resulted in an increase in people creating or updating their Living Trusts. A Trust...

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29 Nov The Infrastructure Bill: Giving Americans a Leg Up

Posted at 13:41h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Former Minnesota Senator Al Franken called it “giving us a leg up”. Franken was lucky; his family had enough money to send him to Harvard. His wife Franni’s family was less affluent. Yet each sibling was able to attend college, thanks to a variety of programs, including scholarships and grants,...

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22 Nov The Kickoff: Holidays 2021

Posted at 16:26h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Let the season begin! That old excitement is back in the air. What can we expect? A white Christmas in many parts of the country. People on the move. Crowded airports and train stations. Busy restaurants. Americans happily spending money again.   Forget the “need-to-haves”. Americans are ready for the...

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07 Nov Thanksgiving 2021: The Year We Get Even

Posted at 17:31h in Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Who remembers last year’s Thanksgiving? Too afraid of Covid to travel, we became a nation of solitary diners hunkering down to a box of takeout, perhaps salvaging our meal with a good bottle of wine. My brother in Florida never got out of his pajamas. He watched the Macy’s parade...

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11 Oct Covid Survivors Belatedly Update Their Living Trust

Posted at 17:24h in Blog, Health

Tom and Gina came into our Oakland office to update their Living Trust—something they regretted not doing years before. Both Tom and Gina are Covid survivors. An RN at Kaiser, Gina became sick in the early days of the pandemic, and Tom soon became infected as well. Both were in...

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05 Oct Judge Orders Deadbeat Dad to Pay Child Support

Posted at 15:39h in Blog, Divorce

Robyn and John, both in their late 30s, had been together for seven years. When Robyn got pregnant, though she knew that John had a son from a former relationship and was an indifferent father, she wanted to have this child. Everyone had always told John how brilliant he was...

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20 Sep Safe Deposit Boxes–Are They Still Relevant?

Posted at 07:37h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Concerns about data privacy extend to how we protect our digital records, including Living Trusts, Deeds and other important legal documents. We frequently field questions about whether a safe deposit box is appropriate for storing these documents. Limitations of safe deposit boxes The most basic dependency is that safe deposit...

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14 Sep Covid’s Broader Reach: Virtual Classrooms Let Students Thrive

Posted at 01:42h in Blog, Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Just about the time we thought we could put this pandemic behind us, we find ourselves masking up against the Delta variant, and there are other versions waiting in the wings. The reality is that Covid’s impact—both the good and the bad—will be with us for a long time. We’re...

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23 Aug Making the New Hybrid Workforce Work

Posted at 11:22h in About Guideway, Blog

A year of Covid has taught us that we like working from home But we also like collaborating with our colleagues. This is the future of the workplace. It’s a hybrid solution. What Guideway learned about hybrid workplaces At Guideway, we initiated a hybrid model within the first week of...

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16 Aug The New American Renaissance: Covid Becomes the Driver for Growth

Posted at 08:25h in Blog, Business and Finance

While Covid has disrupted our lives in ways that few emergencies have before, it has also cleared the way for an economic boom and social revival. The New York Times’ David Brooks is calling it the “American Renaissance”. Brooks describes how West Germany and Japan endured widespread devastation during World...

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02 Aug Vaccine Passport: The Reality and the Roadblocks

Posted at 13:18h in Blog, Health

With Covid’s highly contagious Delta variant raging across the country, the debate over a vaccine passport has amped up. A digital health certificate/vaccine passport required to prove immunization status is controversial, but it’s gaining momentum. Danny Meyer, owner of a number of well-known restaurants in New York City and CEO...

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31 Jul Behind the Scenes with the Army Corps of Engineers

Posted at 14:46h in Wills And Revocable Living Trusts

Covid Heroes: Doing mostly anonymous things to help their communities I keep promising that I’m not going to talk about Covid. It’s behind us, and we’re moving on. But Covid stole an entire year out of our lives and it’s had enormous sociological and economic impacts. Every once in a...

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