One of the most important things El Paso County residents can do is create an estate plan. Regardless of age, an estate plan is the only way to ensure that an individual’s wishes are carried out after his or her death. Creating the estate plan, howev…

A new study has found that baby boomers are nearly twice as likely to make charitable gifts as the next most likely generation. Since boomers are responsible for 43 percent of charitable giving, it is safe to say that there are likely many people bet…

The term estate planning itself tends to lean towards the idea that these plans only matter after we are gone. It is true that a large part of the focus is placed on how our assets will be distibuted after death, but let us not forget that these tool…

Almost one month ago, we brought you the tragic story of James Gandolfini’s death. We also discussed how he had intelligently created a will that made specific provisions for his loved ones, something of a rarity among the Hollywood elite. Although t…

It is a part of estate planning that no one in Texas would have thought of 40 years ago, but the problem of how to deal with emails and other digital information after death is something that many estate planning attorneys are now tackling. In an eff…