Is this your first visit to our office? Relax. We’re looking forward to meeting you. We mean that — we want to get to know you. What are your interests, what you dislike, and what’s important to you — those are what we are looking for. We don’t assign grades to new client visits. But…
We’re actually packing up boxes, setting up desks and moving phones and computers. Our new office address: 1745 E. River Rd, Suite 101, Tucson, AZ 85718. We’ve been updating our readers about the impending relocation of Fleming & Curti, PLC, law offices. The new space in the Joesler Village complex at the intersection of River…
It’s becoming a more common dispute: who gets to make the decision between burial or cremation? Can you direct your own preference in advance? What happens if there is no clear decision — who gets to decide for you? In Arizona, almost two-thirds of all funeral/burial arrangements involve cremation. That’s a higher rate than the…
You may have read about the SECURE Act, which passed Congress as part of its December, 2019, budget bill. We’ve written about it in our newsletter (more than once, in fact). Many of our clients are still having a hard time figuring out exactly what it means. The new law is confusing — and significantly…
That’s our new address: 1745 E. River Rd, Suite 101, Tucson, AZ 85718. We move in this month. We’re very excited. We’ve explained the upcoming move before. While we have been in the same location for over a quarter century, it’s time to move on. We need more space, and we want to be closer…
At Fleming & Curti, PLC, we sometimes act as trustee, personal representative, agent under a power of attorney, or conservator. We charge a fee for those roles, of course. Anyone considering us should understand how we set our fiduciary fees. In this podcast episode, we talk about our fiduciary fees and how we determine an…
Anticipating the future: that’s what estate planning lawyers try to do. We want to get our clients’ wishes down on paper. That means we have to help them imagine all sorts of possible developments. Will tax rules change before your death? Likely, yes. But in what ways? And when will you die, anyway? How about…
Many public benefits programs are “means-tested.” But what does that mean? Some programs are based on participation in an insurance model. Those include Social Security retirement benefits, Social Security disability benefits, and even survivor’s and children’s benefits. Medicare eligibility is also based on participation in the program (through employment and withholding or quarterly estimated payments).…
Adult children with disabilities may live at home with parents, or in group home or other settings. In many cases, their aging parents are key to their care, supervision and welfare. What do those aging parents need to think about to help prepare their children for the inevitable? Obviously, they need to take appropriate estate…
Late in December Congress adopted its 2020 budget. The law goes by the poetic name the “Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020“. We’ve already told you about the SECURE Act, part of the budget law. But there’s more in this complicated law. For our practices, it’s particularly important to know about the relationship between the budget…