How to Protect Your Assets
-- What you have worked for all your life.

By: Teddar S. Brooks, Esq.
Brooks & Brooks, LLP, A Private Client Law Firm

Article originally published by the Olean Times Herald, Olean, NY
on May 31, 2011

We are frequently asked, "How can I protect my house or investments?" This
question usually comes from one of the following threats or concerns:

1. The Medicaid spend down requirements, which could impoverish the
spouse or family; >> more

Revocable Living Trusts - A Real Alternative to Formal Probate

-- Have your cake and eat it too!
By: Kameron Brooks, Esq.
Brooks & Brooks, LLP, A Private Client Law Firm

Article originally published by the Olean Times Herald, Olean, NY
on May 31, 2011

Do you want to have all of flexibility of how you give things away as you would with a Will, but don't want your estate to have to go through Probate? Then consider the Revocable Living Trust.

For more than thirty years Revocable Living Trusts have been used
successfully in California, Florida, Texas and most other states to avoid the complexity and costs of formal probate. New York State joined in this movement about thirteen years ago. >> more