Kirk Kaplan
Crest Key Legal and Accounting Partners
Every estate plan will be implemented, even the one you fail to create. Your goal should be to create a plan to speak for you when you cannot toward maintaining harmony among everyone important to you and minimizing the most likely unintended beneficial interest in your estate - lawyers.
I am passionate about helping people create and enforce their estate plan with a focus to exclude lawyer predators. Here is why: My over 20 years of practicing law and accounting has revealed a common theme that runs through all trust litigation--legal formality during incapacity and after death OFTEN UNDERMINES family understandings that predatory lawyers exploit. Failing to account for family understandings many times causes catastrophic plan failures that unintentionally favor a child to the detriment of other children and their attorneys, and usually causes significant financial and psychological strain on all involved. For example, people are surprised to find out provisions in a trust to protect a child from a creditor like a credit card company will be used by that child as a reason not to repay amounts the child owes a parent after the parent dies. Situations like this are addressed in estate plans clients create with me. Attorneys for these children also advocate the anti alienation clause does not apply and therefore should be paid from the trust estate. We address this issue head-in to prevent lawyers from benefiting from your estate.
A significant part of estate planning is helping people discover and address family understandings to eliminate or mitigate family distress after death. Find a firm with litigation and accounting experience that brings strategic and analytical focus to bear dispensing with clutter towards finding solutions with clear direction for your estate plan to mitigate common traps and reduce or eliminate potential challenges so your interests are protected now and in the future.
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- Estate, Probate and Taxation.
- Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
- J.D. (1996)
- Honors: Cum Laude
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- Regis University
- B.S. (1986) | Accounting and Business Administration
- Honors: Cum Laude
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- Q. Does medical POA have duty to inform siblings of care changes?
- A: I am sorry to hear your mother suffered a stroke. Such medical events are life changing. From this point forward, your sister has a lot of work, which can be very stressful and unsatisfying.
In re your sister's authority as agent under your mother's Power of Attorney for Healthcare. She owes a fiduciary duty to your mother, not to all of you. While she is under no duty to keep all of you informed, keeping all of you informed is recommended. It just keeps family fuss to a minimum and helps keeps people from lawyering up.
Next, her authority as agent for your mother is not a democracy. In short what that means, while she can discuss with you her status, she ultimately decides ... Read More
- Q. With an affidavit of entitlement in Nevada completed and notarized, how do you cash a check made out to the estate?
- A: Likely the Affidavit will not be effective with banks, but you could try to ask if they would cash the checks. Try the bank you are currently work with. Or, send the affidavit to each of the issuers of the checks and them to re issue the check in your name. Depending upon the number of checks, this could be tedious and possibly unproductive. If all else fails, then you will likely to have to petition the court to issue special letters of administration, then obtain a tax ID for the estate and open an account with your chosen bank. I know there is a lot of work here, but that is how I understand the process works from all the years I have been probating estates in Nevada. I wish you well.
- Q. Need proba need a probate attorney for administrator of will in Fallon Nevada Churchill county
- A: I am sorry to hear you lost someone important to you. We handle probates in all 17 counties, including Churchill County, in Nevada for several years and are familiar with local court rules of the Tenth Judicial District Court. Since I am also a CPA, if required, I will actively assist with tax savings planning for the Estate to get more to the heirs. If you become a client, we will share with you our "Probate Road Map" (Nevada Service Mark) timely advising you of critical information I have learned over the 27 years of my practice in probate you need to know and what to expect next. I also for the past three years have provided continuing education classes to non attorney professionals ... Read More
