Ask Your Attorney For Living Wills Or Living Trusts The term living will is misconceived times and again. The living wills are far too different from the customary wills which is used to keep forward your last wishes or to tell how or when you possession will be distributed. The living wills are actually legal documents which make known to ones desires and wishes regarding life prolonging medical treatments. The living will is...more
What Is Involved in Creating a Living Will? As a probate attorney in Nashville, Tennessee with over 35 years of experience, Ron Nevin explains that the best way to ensure that your wishes are known and honored is to create a living will. But what provisions should be included? "That depends on you," says Nevin, "and how you feel about various life-extending measures. A living will involves some very personal decisions." No one...more
What You Should Know About a Living Will What is a living will and how can it benefit your family if you become incapacitated? Here, Ron Nevin, an attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, explains what you should know about a living will and how it's used in making healthcare decisions when someone is seriously ill or injured. A loved one's serious illness or injury can be devastating for any family. And facing difficult decisions about that loved one's care can make the experience even more difficult. That is why it is necessary to create a living will in the event that you become incapacitated. Doing so can remove the responsibility for such emotionally wrenching decisions from family members. Legal DocumentA living will is also sometimes called an advance directive, health care directive, or a physician's directive. It is a legal document in which you make your wishes known about how you want to be treated in the event that you become incapacitated. A living will comes into play in situations where someone is gravely ill or injured and may not survive. It designates which, if any, life-prolonging treatments that individual wishes to receive under such...more
Will & Living Will: What's The Difference? The will is the most widely understood estate planning document, and of course it is used as a way for people to make their wishes known with regard to how they would like their assets to be distributed after they pass away. You may have heard the term "last will and testament" and...more
Eat Well to Live Well Health and wellness begins with the food you put into your body. Often the goal is to lose weight, but sometimes it's difficult to know where to begin. Familiarizing yourself with "health food" is the best way to get over the intimidation and begin helping your heart and body. A healthy diet should always begin...more
You can live well on $10K per person per year, or less Have you noticed, during all the layoffs and foreclosures, that some people are quietly doing just fine? They have nice houses, sometimes paid-off mortgages, go on vacations, never seem to have money worries, and they make the same salaries as the people whose lives are falling apart. These people are pretty subtle about it. You have to look around and piece together the fact that they are living way more securely, with more free time, than everyone else.So what's their secret?I am going to fill you in on what it is, since I am one of those people.There is a whole other way to live.Start pondering what you pay for. You pay for some pretty elaborate food packaging. Disposable bags. Disposable paper towels. Credit card interest and fees. Bank fees. Clothes you don't wear. Toys your kids don't play with. Magazines you don't read. Food you throw out. Phone and cable TV services you don't need or really use. Gadgets that don't work.What is it you have for this money you have paid out?Nothing.Now, here's the scary part -- that money you paid out that resulted in nothing? You paid taxes on that money. Federal income...more
Life is matter of choice. Choose well, live well I remember the days way back in the late 1990s when I was a youthful student in engineering school. Life was led casually, without any caring towards the future. Smoking a pack of 20...more
The Right Living Will Attorney When it comes time to plan for the later years of life many people put off the decision for much too long. The main purpose of sitting down to do what is usually called succession planning is to make sure...more
To Live Well, Eat Smart for Your Heart Something that's on the mind of many adults is eating a healthy diet. It can be daunting to even consider how to go about losing weight or changing your habits. It may help to know some of the delicious...more
As a probate attorney in Nashville, Tennessee with over 35 years of experience, Ron Nevin explains that the best way to ensure that your wishes are known and honored is to create a living will. But what provisions should be included? That depends on...more
What is a living will and how can it benefit your family if you become incapacitated? Here, Ron Nevin, an attorney in Nashville, Tennessee, explains what you should know about a living will and how its used in making healthcare decisions when someone...more
The Terry Schiavo case of life, death, and the wishes of someone who is terminally ill has not quite left our memory.For 15 years opposite sides of a life and death struggle involving Terry Schiavo who in February of 1990 at age 26 collapsed in her...more