Incorporating charitable giving into your estate plan can be a thoughtful and strategic way to support causes you care about while also achieving estate planning objectives. Whether you’re driven by philanthropic goals, legacy planning or financial considerations, planned giving can be an effective tool if you’re seeking to make a lasting impact. You generally have […]
Watch Graves Theus visit with KALB’s Natalie O’Quin about what to do, and what NOT to do when planning and protecting your estate.
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A revocable trust provides ZERO asset protection. Watch this brief informative video from estate planning attorney Graves Theus to learn more. Theus Law Offices specializes in a complete range of estate planning and elder law services, including wills, trusts, probate, successions, estate administration, and probate litigation. If you need a Louisiana wills and trusts lawyer
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The team with Theus Law Offices works with people from all walks of life. While everyone has varied needs and desires, it can be universally said that failure to plan for matters related to incapacity or death is in effect planning to fail. More often than not we see people who have made well-intentioned mistakes with
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Louisiana is the only state in the United States which has the concept of forced heirship. What Is Forced Heirship? Forced heirship is an ancient civilian concept derived from Roman law. The law of forced heirship provides that certain family members cannot be disinherited. The law, as originally enacted, provided that any child of a
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Contesting a Will in Louisiana Joe Crown was a drunk. And a mean one at that. He was also cheap. So cheap that he drafted his own will. Bad idea. Just to be mean, he left his only child, Tommy Crown, a bucket of pennies. He left the rest of his estate to his sister, who
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REVOCABLE TRUST NO LONGER NECESSARY TO HIDE ASSET VALUES IN LOUISIANA (“Sealed” Inventory Now Required Upon Request) Mrs. Ethel Merman received an invitation to a free educational seminar about estate planning. At the seminar, the promoter suggested that the probate process in Louisiana is: (1) expensive, (2) protracted / burdensome, (3) often litigious, and (4)
A new disruptive innovation is on the horizon in the area of estate planning, namely electronic wills. An electronic will is one that is digitally (not physically) signed and stored electronically. Traditionally, all parties to a will (the testator, two witnesses and a notary) must be physically present and in the same room for the
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THE COST OF A REVOCABLE TRUST IN LOUISIANA (Does It Measure Out?) BY THEUS LAW OFFICES Mrs. Gladys Holsum received an invitation to a free educational seminar about estate planning. At the seminar, after a long parade of horribles, Gladys was told she needed a revocable trust to avoid an impending calamity. She was told that
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