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Choice of Business Entity. What type of business entity should you use? Most individuals elect to conduct business using a separate business entity to provide a separation between personal assets and business liability. This is a discussion of the different entities available for use.


Basic Charitable Giving. This article discusses basic ways to give to your favorite charity. Giving to a favorite charity is an activity that brings great joy and enables your money to work for the ideals in which you believe. This is a discussion of some of the basic ways you are able to make such gifts.


Choice of Law Options in Trusts. A great deal of flexibility exists when determining what law to aply to different parts of trusts. This article discusses what choices are available, and in what parts of the trust these options exist.


The Use of Kovel Letters for Collaboration. If litigation that may require the participation of an accounting professional is a possibility, extending the attorney-client privilege to include the accountant may be appropriate.


Unmarried Adult Estate Planning. Unmarried adults present special circumstances that must be considered when designing a comprehensive estate plan. Disability planning documnets, specifically, must be drafted to meet these challenges.


The List of Trusts and Trust Terms. This list provides a brief description of more than fifty types of trusts and is meant to be a reference resource for consumers of trust services.


The Use of Special Needs Trusts and Supplemental Needs Trusts in Colorado. With the passing of the Uniform Trust Code in many states across the United States, Colorado has become a favorable jurisdiction to settle such a trust to provide assets for the use of a disabled or special needs person without fear of disqualifying that person from public benefit programs such as Medicaid.


Pet Trusts: Providing for the Continuity of Care of Your Pets and Other Animals. Pet Trusts are useful to provide continuity of care for pets in the event of the disability of a human companion. Pet Trusts may also be used so that pet owners can provide certainty of care for pets which are expected to outlive their human companions.

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