In 2025, estate planning remains critical to securing your financial future and protecting the people you care about. Whether you aim to manage your assets efficiently, avoid unnecessary legal hurdles, or provide clear instructions for your family, choosing between living trusts versus wills or putting both in place is a pivotal decision. Both...
Picture this: You've worked hard all your life, built a substantial estate, and nurtured relationships with family and loved ones. Then, suddenly, you pass away. Without an updated will, what happens to your assets? Who takes care of your minor children? Will your last wishes be respected? In California, these...
Including Friends as Beneficiaries in Your California Will: What You Need to Know When most people think of writing a will, they envision leaving their assets to their family members. However, for various reasons, some individuals may choose to leave their assets to their close friends instead. In California, it is...
Blending Families, Blending Assets: How to Navigate Estate Planning and Asset Distribution in Modern Family Structures in California In the United States, the traditional family structure of a married couple with children living together is no longer the only prevalent model. Blended families, which may consist of a couple and their...
Common Mistakes When Drafting Your Will - Essential Tips for Protecting Your Assets and Loved Ones Picture this: you've worked hard your entire life to accumulate your assets and want to ensure they're distributed according to your wishes after you're gone. So, you decide to draft a will - great decision!...
Just as a Living Trust has become an important part of financial planning, a reverse mortgage can play a role in generating extra revenue for retired seniors. Reverse mortgages have been arounds since 1961, and they’ve always been somewhat controversial. Yet a reverse mortgage can be a real difference-maker for...
Covid-19 has left many families grieving the sudden loss of their loved ones. As Guideway assists them in probating their estates, we’re sensitive to the painful loss of family members. In a best-case scenario, the Probate is uncontested by the surviving family members, the Executor settles the estate and it’s...
These Are Documents You May Need Sending kids off to school in the fall has always been an important ritual that marks the changing seasons. It’s an exciting time for kids: A time for learning, social development and a growing independence. Parents are just glad to get back into familiar routines. Nothing’s...
It was just a year ago that California’s independent contractors, or gig workers, kicked off the year wondering how to either leverage or circumvent AB5, the law intended to give them workplace benefits. Lawmakers assumed that companies would comply with this new law and convert those gig jobs into full-time...
We’re six months into this miserable disease and there’s little to feel good about. Yet stories emerge of truly heroic people who are manning soup kitchens, putting in 14-hour days in healthcare facilities and fueling supply chains to help save lives. Now independent groups have come together as “Frontline Foods”. An...
Sally Clark is 62 and unemployable. She’s savvy, high-energy and at the top of her game, an expert in branding. She would love to be working but can’t find a job. “I worked in corporate America for more than 40 years with big-name companies. But I cannot get a job--the...
Europe’s new heroes aren’t actors, musicians or politicians. The new celebrities are epidemiologists and virologists. These are the people who are drawing huge virtual crowds around the world during their regularly scheduled briefings. There’s a good reason for their popularity. COVID Heroes: Scientists are the new rockstars! In a time of...
