[caption id="attachment_2654" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] #image_title[/caption] Oklahoma Power of Attorney: Part Two We previously did a blog on Powers of Attorney, very specifically, the new power of attorney created when Oklahoma adopted the Uniform Power of Attorney Act. If you would like more specific information regarding this power...
Regarding Oklahoma’s New Power of Attorney On April 28, 2021, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed HB 2548, adopting the Uniform Power of Attorney Act (UPOAA) which modified how future powers of attorney needed to be drafted. On November 1, 2021, the UPOAA went into effect in...
A Canoe, a Dog House, and Pancakes If you are traveling down the road in a canoe, and your bumper falls off, how many pancakes can you stick in a dog house? Pause, wait for response, then answer. None. Frogs can’t fly. Great joke by kids circa 1977....
List Specific Gifts in Your Trust To list personal tangible property as Specific Gifts in your trust, some thoughts. In the beginning, when I was new to estate planning, I ran across trusts of every shape and size. Each looked quite different than the next and I...
Criminals are Sophisticated Scammers Are you or someone you know, someone that you think could be taken advantage of by someone close or a stranger taking advantage of them in person or over the internet? Proper estate planning can minimize the risk that a person would lose...
Times are Changing For the last hundreds of thousands of years, Wills and other estate planning documents were only signed utilizing what we might call “ink on paper.” It simply means that a person signs a piece of paper with a pen or some other writing...
