April 28, 2022- The definition of probate is establishing the validity of a will, which is a court process. Often times when someone dies without a will, you may still hear someone say that probate is necessary. At this point, it would be more technically correct to say that the estate has to be administered, …
April 14, 2022- For starters, what is meant by real property and why should anyone even care about this subject? Real property refers to land and everything permanently attached to it, so an example of real property is vacant land or land with a house on that land. Why should you care? How you own joint …
October 29, 2021- One of my main goals of combining law and wellness is to help people use wellness to make calm and measured decisions with respect to legal matters so that they are not reacting to possibly unpleasant circumstances, but instead proactively improving the quality of their life based on their own choices. When …
October 16, 2021- Writing, to some, is considered a lost art in this digital age. So many things in life are digital and it almost feels like you’re stepping back in time when you take pen to paper, but there is value in writing. From a wellness and legal perspective, writing has several benefits. From …
October 9, 2021- I have been contacted on several occasions to prepare trust documents, i.e., a fiduciary arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries. When I ask why, the reason is that the person wishes to avoid probate, i.e. court involvement for a deceased …
September 25, 2021- A client once said to me, “I have five kids, and I don’t like three of them, so I’m leaving everything to the other two and to charity.” She was one of the nicest and least stressed individuals I have ever met. In her mid-eighties, she knew what she wanted and had …
September 18, 2021- When it comes to my yoga practice, I can’t tell you the number of times I have heard someone say they cannot do yoga because they’re not flexible. Given the yoga pictures of people twisted like a pretzel, I can understand the reasoning behind that sentiment; however, this is a major misperception …
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This article is not a medical treatise on dementia, but rather the options that you do have when it comes to this issue both legally and in wellness. I used to volunteer at a nursing home and one of the ladies I would visit was suffering from MS. She had an incredibly sharp mind, but …
LEGAL WELLNESS- August 5, 2021 I shared this on TheLegalYogi’s social media pages this week because this is an issue that comes up too often. I know that there is often a division of labor within marriages; however, sometimes the division is to such a point where one spouse does not have any information regarding …
LEGAL- July 21, 2021 Most of us have heard the line that getting married is just a “piece of paper”. A real estate contract is just a piece of paper that provides the amount the buyer is to pay and the property the seller is selling, and state the repercussions of either party defaulting under …