Written by Jill Roamer J.D. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a program that is overseen by the Social Security Administration (SSA). SSDI is funded through payroll taxes, and a recipient is considered “insured” because that individual has a certain amount of work credits to receive benefits. Those work credits are earned by working for…

Written by Robert T. Nickerson As we get older, relationships can change. Sometimes we lose our loved ones. Sometimes we find someone new and want to be with that person. Sometimes we may even get remarried. In fact, grey divorces, which are divorces that happen to people in their sixties, have been more common in…

Written by Robert T. Nickerson Larry King’s wife, who he had been estranged from, has announced that she would be contesting his will.  Both Larry King and his seventh wife, Shawn King, were in the middle of a divorce, as filed back in August 2019. The two were still legally married when Larry died on January…

Written by Robert T. Nickerson Do you have a child or someone in your family with either physical or mental conditions that would label them special needs? Then chances are your going to face a lot of challenges with their well being and care, especially within the financial side. You also might have other people…

Written by Robert T. Nickerson Gather around kids! It’s time to let you all in on a little secret…your no longer children. In fact, a lot of Millennials are almost about to hit the forty year old mark. This means that mom and dad, who are most likely boomers, will want to have a chat…

Written by Robert Nickerson When we get to that point of creating an estate plan, we tend to figure out the collective feeling. What I mean exactly is the overall emotion everyone has about the situation. We might feel happy, sad, or even angry at the person whose estate is being represented. Usually the feeling…

Written by Jill Roamer, J.D. The disabled population likely experiences an amplified sense of vulnerability during disastrous happenings. The compounded risks encountered by the disabled during a catastrophic event are a real, and very serious, concern. A 2019 Act focuses on this hinderance and will attempt to bridge the accessibility gap for disaster response and…

Written by Jill Roamer J.D.  November brought with it changes to California’s real property taxation laws. Proposition 19 passed narrowly and modified laws which were already on the books. Let’s take a look at the old rules and then how the new rules will work.In many places in California, real property has been sky-rocketing in…

Many Americans don’t have a will. Why not? Well, the reason may be that they don’t want to think about death. Maybe they balk at the idea of attorney fees. Or, maybe they simply don’t want to risk getting COVID-19 by traveling to do business. As quarantining, social distancing, and Zoom meetings become the new…

Written by Robert Nickerson Within the 2020 election, proposition 19, a constitutional amendment for property tax transfers and exemptions was approved. This is the biggest change to property taxes in California since prop 13 in 1978. For obvious reasons, home owners need to understand the new consequences of it and what it’s going to do…