by Kelley Way | May 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Trusts and corporations are valuable estate planning tools. Both serve as a way to keep an estate out of probate, because both are considered separate entities under the law. Anything they own is not owned by you, therefore it is not part of the estate (for probate...
by Kelley Way | Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
People are very good at identifying trademarks, and can confidently name or point out any number of famous marks. Ask those same people what a trademark is, or why we have trademarks, and they get much less confident. So let’s start from the top and break it down into...
by Kelley Way | Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Technically, everyone has an estate plan. If you haven’t created your own, then the government has one ready and waiting for you – it’s called the Probate Code. While the Probate Code might sound similar to the Pirate’s Code, they really only have one thing in...
by Kelley Way | Mar 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many people are confused when they mention a need for a will or trust and are referred to an estate planning attorney. What’s the connection? What does “estate planning” mean anyway? Let’s start with the fundamentals. Your “estate” is everything you own – your money,...
by Kelley Way | Mar 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
In my last post on copyrights, I talked about what a copyright is. In this post, I’ll be talking about what a copyright does, i.e. what rights a copyright owner has to his or her work. A copyright grants its owner six very specific and exclusive rights: Right of...
