By Larry Gilbert, guest contributor Riding a bike, to commute or just for fun, can significantly contribute to your health, improving cardiovascular conditioning, improving brain function, and helping you maintain a healthy body weight. Bike riding is one of…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Choosing the Wrong Executor
Among my Vermont Estate Planning workshops my clients most appreciate is the one called “Thrills, Chills, and Probate-Related Horror.” The probate process can seem deceptively simple to people who’ve never been through it. But in probate, seemingly minor errors or…
The Grandparents’ Gift of Love That Lasts Many Holiday Seasons
THE GRANDPARENTS’ GIFT OF LOVE THAT LASTS MANY HOLIDAY SEASONS It’s a scene familiar to many grandparents: small children in footie pajamas seated around the Christmas tree, tearing open one brightly festooned package after another and greeting the contents with…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Joint Checking Account with Adult Child
When a senior has a joint checking account with an adult child Many seniors add an adult child or other trusted family member to their checking account to insure their bills can be paid in case of emergency or for…
Doing Good Work
Guest Article provided by Sarah Lipton, founder of The Presence Point, LLC Doing good work is something most of us aspire to. But how do we do that when we are not being paid and therefore motivated by a paycheck? How can we…
9 Things to Consider as your Special Needs Child Transitions to Adulthood
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) SSI is a monthly cash benefit for eligible disabled minors and adults. Claimants need to be found disabled under Social Security rules and be in financial need to qualify. The eligibility rules change once an individual…