If you have a health care power of attorney and living will, you should make sure that someone you trust knows where to find them. It is...

After you retire, you should continue to make plans so that you will be ready in case anything happens. It might be tempting to stop...

It is impossible to know whether you will ever have an accident or have an illness that will leave you incapacitated. However, you can...

As you approach retirement age there are a few legal documents that you need to have to make sure that everything will be taken care of,...

The number of Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's disease is expected to double in upcoming decades. It is important to make plans for...

A study has highlighted an unusual case, where doctors had to decide what to do about a patient who had a "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo....

It is important that you make plans for what will happen to your family and your possessions after you pass away. It is also important to...

When parents are about to retire, they need to think about more than just finances and healthcare. They also need to have legal documents...

Some of the biggest estate planning mistakes that people make are not technically estate planning, but they can have a big effect on an...

Parents want what is best for their children.  There are a few things that should be done before a child goes off to college, according...

Most of the time, the medical profession treats its patients in keeping with what the patients want. If someone has a broken leg, for...

Millions of Americans have completed advanced medical directives such as health care powers of attorney and living wills. More and more...

The estate planning news has recently been full of stories about a new survey that showed that 58% of American adults do not have wills....

The last thing that most end of life patients want to deal with, is a family feud over the patient’s medical treatment and care. However,...

Medicine has traditionally been focused on trying to keep patients alive, with the notion being that dying is the worst thing that can...

Estate plans come in all shapes and sizes. Some are extraordinarily complex and contain thousands of pages of legal documents. Other...

A common misconception is that if you are a single adult with no children, you will not need an estate plan. Recently, the NWI Times...

In many families just because a child is an adult and is going to college does not mean the child is independent. The parents still pay...

Most high school graduates have going to college or getting a job on their minds. They do not often think about possibly passing away...

A recent article in the Washington Post, entitled "When a doctor and patient disagree about care at the end of life," is an interesting...