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...

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'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,

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 ...

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. -

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,