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14 Home Healthcare Mistakes to Avoid
Choosing home healthcare can be a very difficult and complicated decision. Experienced elder law and estate planning attorneys should be able to help you avoid home healthcare mistakes because they have experience in this area. We actually have quite a few tools that...
Everyone Over 18 Needs One of These…
At our house we like to watch the old shows like Little House on the Prairie and Andy Griffith. Bailey, our daughter, loves watching "Half Pint" and Barney Fife. Those are great shows and they reinforce some great old-fashioned values. In estate planning, there are...
Family Lending: Bad Idea or Strategic Investment Opportunity?
We are living in interesting times. Several Edwards Group clients have expressed uncertainty about how to safely invest their money given these unprecedented low-interest rates. Certificates of deposit have long been a favorite for risk-averse investors, but in this...
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Not Your Parent’s Estate Plan
Well, I turned another year older a few weeks ago -- 42! I love to read and as I get older, I seem to lean towards non-fiction. Especially history. Right now I'm reading a fantastic book, The Fifties by David Halberstam. (You may remember me talking about the first...
Business Exit Planning Event – Illini Country Club, March 7 at 4:30 pm. You’re invited!
Business Exit Planning Event Edwards Group LLC is very happy to be a co-sponsor of a special event coming up - for business owners and their advisors. Please RSVP and join us if you can. Sikich LLP and Edwards Group LLC invite you to attend Business Exit...
The #1 Secret of Estate Planning
I've been thinking about all the workshops we've been doing. We enjoy leading them, and the response has been fantastic. People tell us they learn a lot. But it got me to thinking about the secret some people miss with their planning. It's the secret that stands in...
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Top 5 Posts of 2011
One of the core values here at Edwards Group is educating our clients. We strongly believe that the more informed you are, the better we can assist you in making an effective estate plan that will do exactly what it was designed to do. As such, we continually strive...
Farewell to Lynn Hanson, Client Coordinator
In December 2008, Lynn and I founded Edwards Group. The office didn't even have a front door back then! She has been an invaluable part of our team and has always been ready to jump in and do whatever was needed, for a client or when it came to running the office. And...
Edwards Group is Hiring!
How would you like to work at your favorite estate planning firm in Springfield? See the ad below for details: CLIENT COORDINATOR, EDWARDS GROUP LLC Do you make a good first impression? Busy and growing estate planning law firm seeks a new team member to help the firm...
Fall Family Fun
Celebrating families is one of the things that makes Edwards Group unique. We're not just about documents. We're about relationships. That's why we love sharing our families with our clients. We hope that you and your family are having a wonderful fall and finding...
Ask the Attorneys: Medicaid’s Look-back Rule
"Are asset gifts to spouses exempt from the 5-year "look back" for Medicaid? --Charles A. Generally speaking, assets transfers to a spouse are exempt from the 5-year look-back rule. Transferring assets from the Medicaid applicant spouse to the community spouse (the...