Lending Money to Family and Friends – The Rules
Times can get financially rough. People go through difficult periods in life and might be strapped for cash and need an additional source of funds. Perhaps the cash is needed…
Estate Planning Strategy: The Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust for Business Owners
Business owners are particularly sensitive to cash flow and liquidity needs. This can be especially true of the business owner’s estate after death. The estate needs cash to continue business…
Cohabitants Can Acquire Property Rights as if They Were Married
Popular culture instills in us Washingtonians the concept of “common law marriage.” The concept goes something like this: if a man and a woman live together for more than seven…
Executive Employment Contracts
Many business owners believe that the executive employment contract is unnecessary. Or, that by entering into an employment contract with the employee, the employer loses the ability to fire at-will.…
Distinguishing the Revocable Living Trust from the Will-Based Estate Plan
You’ve likely heard finance experts say it. In fact, Suze Orman wrote about it in the July issue of the Costco Connection (2015). It is this piece of estate planning…
Consider a Paid Executor for your Estate Plan
I get this question a lot: “Beau, what’s the single most important thing I can do in my estate plan to ensure that my plan is carried out with the…
Charitable Giving Options
As this issue is devoted, in part, to the issue of philanthropy, I thought it prudent to review some basic charitable gifting techniques and how those techniques can be employed…
Funding the Buy-Sell Agreement
As any Tri-City Area Journal of Business reader knows, organizational documents are imperative for entrepreneurs starting a business (see my article in the June 2015 issue of this publication). This…
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