In light of the recent hurricane, we want to encourage you to plan ahead for natural disasters and provide resources to help you do so. Disaster can strike at any time. Financial documents, medical records, estate planning documents, and other important records are vital to recovering...
Triage Cancer and CancerCare, in collaboration with Eisai Inc., have partnered to develop Magnolia Purpose in Planning®, an initiative designed to provide the cancer community with a library of helpful information to get organized, plan ahead, and complete needed estate planning and medical decision-making documents. We...
It's spring. We're starting to emerge from, well, a lot of things. Over the past year, I've heard just about every kind of organizing/decluttering/reordering response to our pandemic isolation and work-from-home shifts. Some folks, stuck in their spaces with less to do than usual and...
Planning an upcoming trip? You might want to double-check your travel insurance coverage before you hit the road. Recently in a story by the LA Times, Kathy Mutchler described her experience with the travel insurance company the Good Sam Club. Kathy pays $89.99 annually for the...
As communities across the country are being hit hard by fires and storms this week, our thoughts are with those who facing these challenges right now. We want to remind people of the importance of planning ahead for natural disasters and resources to help. Individuals diagnosed with...
Today is National Health Care Decisions Day and we would like to highlight the importance of advance planning for everyone. Waiting until being diagnosed with a serious medical condition, like cancer, can make advance planning more difficult, especially facing issues of mortality. But creating a plan...
National Healthcare Decisions Day, or NHDD, is a national call to action, to build awareness and spark conversation on the importance of advance care planning. The theme for 2016 is “It Always Seems Too Early, Until It’s Too Late.” The main goals of NHDD are to...
by Michelle Shagenov, Esq. In November, I discussed basic estate planning tips and estate planning as the key to retaining control of YOUR affairs, for as long as you are able to do so. I also noted that developing an estate plan is an individualized process that...