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With the holiday season upon us and tidings of good cheer in the air, our collective instincts for generosity often peak. It’s worth considering perhaps a better way to give…
With the holiday season upon us and tidings of good cheer in the air, our collective instincts for generosity often peak. It’s worth considering perhaps a better way to give…
From time to time, it is important to take stock of our own personal liability exposure and find ways to mitigate that liability. Liability exposure can creep into our lives…
One of the biggest areas that is often overlooked in an estate plan are the seemingly innocuous beneficiary designations tied to assets like retirement accounts and life insurance. The beneficiary…
Think of a unique piece of property. Maybe it’s a plot of land you own that is situated perfectly to be added to the Badger Mountain trail system. Maybe it’s…
Your property can be taken from you even though you have ostensibly done nothing wrong. You have paid your bills and you are current on your taxes and you have…
Personal liability exposure is an important planning consideration. A person should be able to identify potential risks and assess means to mitigate those risks with the ultimate goal of reducing…
Conventional financial wisdom suggests that the first thing a person should do after building the three to six month rainy-day fund is to maximize contributions to retirement accounts. Qualified retirement…
When a person endeavors to purchase a piece of real property (i.e. land and any associated buildings), the purchaser would be wise to study up on the potential liability he…
If you’ve ever driven past an abandoned house with rusted play equipment in plain sight and thought that it looked like a dangerous trap for unwary children, then you intuitively…
Generally, in Washington state, income producing real property should be placed into a Washington limited liability company (“LLC”). What is real property? Real property is any property that is of…