

This is a bad dog.
This is my dog Oliver. He is a gorgeous and funny dachshund. We adore him (and his two dog sisters.) However, he prefers strangers to his own dinner-giving owners, he will knock a toddler over to get to a crumb and he will look you in the eye as he pees on the rug. If something happened to us, where would Oliver go? I don’t want to even consider it. The statistics on pets who survive their owners are very upsetting. Many people assume extended family will just adopt the


Hey! It’s National Estate Planning Week!
In 2008, Congress passed H. Res. 1499 which designated the third week in October as a week for assisting the public in understanding the importance and benefits of estate planning. “Estate Planning” sounds very formal. I have friends and clients who assumed they didn’t need “Estate Planning” because they didn’t feel like they had an “Estate.” But estate planning is really just making a plan for all the things you own – your car, your home, your checking and savings accounts