Category: Guardians

Many important subjects need to be discussed before your first baby comes along. However, don’t forget to consider key issues, such as health insurance, finances and guardianship. In the frenzy of making plans for your first baby including the route to the hospital, names and nurseries, it is important not to forget financial arrangements, according to […]

If you are a parent it is likely a will is an essential document. It is likely that once you bring a child into this world you are going to be more concerned about them than you are about yourself which means you need a will as Nerdwallet explains in “Protect Your Family by Writing […]

A good estate plan can give your young children proper care and security. Parents with minor children need to make special considerations with estate planning as highlighted in the Forbes article “Will Your Estate Plan Truly Take Care of Your Kids?“. Among those considerations are: Figure out who you would want to be the guardian […]

U.S. and Japan both face problems in dealing with elderly guardianship systems. Japan is similar to the U.S. in the fact it is dealing with an aging population and facing a growing number of dementia cases. The impact of the implementation by Japan of a guardianship system in 2000 is discussed in the Japan Times […]

The financial abuse of the elderly is an unpleasant and unfair situation and the investment industry may be in the best position to recognize it. Proposed regulations and laws are being considered to strengthen the industry’s ability to report it. An investment company is in the unique position of often knowing a client’s investing position, […]

Couples who are expecting their first child are busy with decorating the nursery and taking childbirth classes. In addition to planning for their financial future, estate planning should be a high priority to-do item. They need to purchase life insurance, set up a college fund, and answer one of the most unpleasant questions of all: […]

If you do not have a will the state will provide one for you. And if you are married with young children and both parents die who becomes the children’s guardian will be up to the state’s court system. No will? No problem – the state will provide one for you. But how likely is […]

My husband and I have decided we would want our kids to go to my brother and his family, who live in another city, a 10-hour drive away. We think my brother and his wife would raise them more how we would want them to be raised, especially when it comes to the big decisions. […]

“This is about protecting the state’s most vulnerable people,” Pelanda said. “We want to hold those in charge of others responsible and ensure they know what’s expected of them.” Ohio is taking action against a developing problem: guardianship abuse. Recent media reports have revealed that Ohio has a large problem with some court-appointed guardians who […]

Recently, we were forced to watch a painful family feud play out in the media over how Casey Kasem should be cared for in his final days.  This type of internal family strife is not uncommon even among non-celebrity blended families who may not have considered the consequences of naming one child, a new spouse […]