Springing vs. surviving durable financial powers of attorney: what's the difference? Which is better? - A "springing" power of attorney becomes effective only when the signer becomes incapacitated -- lawyers talk about it "springing" into existence.

We're lucky to count Prof. Gerry Beyer among our good friends. He's the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law at Texas Tech University College of Law. You can imagine that his business cards must be larger than usual -- and that's before h...

Everyone wants a "simple" estate plan. But many have complicated notions about distribution of assets. We want to help you simplify your estate plan. - We see many clients with fixed ideas about which assets should go to which beneficiaries.

Arizona is one of the forward-thinking states authorizing some sort of electronic signing of wills. So what is the status of electronic wills in the era of coronavirus concerns? - Turns out it's not yet ready for the real world.

Like you, we are trying to stay ahead of the developing pandemic. As we explain in this COVID-19 update, we want to continue to provide services to our clients, trust beneficiaries and wards. Some of those services are essential; all of them are import...

When should your trust include spendthrift trust provisions? Are they only for spendthrifts, or only for "special needs" beneficiaries? - In this podcast episode, Tucson elder law attorneys Robert B. Fleming and Elizabeth Noble Rollings Friman discuss...

Public and private offices all across the country are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Law offices are no different. But at Fleming & Curti, PLC, we are a little bit different. We have some additional considerations to cope with in deciding how to ...

One of the most challenging jobs for a successor trustee or personal representative of an estate: dividing personal property among the beneficiaries or heirs. If you're in charge of administering an estate,

Suppose you have been named as trustee of your parents' trust, or as personal representative (executor) of your last surviving parent's estate. You wonder: What do I do with my parent's house? Do you sell it immediately, as is?

At the bottom of each of our newsletter and podcast entries online, we ask a survey question. The current one asks what happens if an Arizona resident dies without a will. We offer five options; we were surprised that less than 1/3 of our readers got t...