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If you are starting the new year with ambitions to start your own business, you should make sure that you combine your vision for the future with actions in the present. You probably already have a good idea of your business idea and how you would like it to grow in the next few years.

When siblings do not get as much money in their parents' estate plan as they wanted, they sometimes get caught up in estate disputes. The bequests may be inequal, for instance, leaving one child more than the other.

Many Dayton residents believe that they don't need to do any estate planning. After all, they may reason, they are young, unencumbered and living paycheck to paycheck.

If a person you love has recently died, it is likely to be a stressful and sad time for you. Unfortunately, in addition to grieving your loss, you will also have to deal with the administrative aspects of dealing with their estate.

When starting to plan your estate, you will likely be interested in planning strategies that will benefit you from a tax perspective. In addition, you may be reflecting on things you can do to make a positive impact on the world and benefit causes that you care deeply about.

Undue influence can be something of a tricky subject in estate disputes because there is no specific definition. Also, it can look a bit different from one case to the next. But undue influence is the process of inducing an elderly person to change their will or estate plan.

Big corporations always have a team of well-paid attorneys working to keep the business on the straight-and-narrow legal path. This protects the company's interests in all kinds of disputes.

Have you never bothered to draft a will or do your estate planning? If you talk to friends, co-workers and family members, do most of them say that they have not done it either?

When you are a business owner or manager, you will almost certainly need to draft contracts regularly. Contracts are a way for you to protect the interests of your business at all costs. Therefore, it goes without saying that they are very important to get right.

When a person is assigned as a power of attorney (POA), they have a huge amount of authority when it comes to the principal's estate. POAs have the power to make business and medical decisions if the principal becomes mentally incapacitated.