After spending so much time and effort accumulating your ‘stuff,’ doesn’t it make sense to protect it the best you can. Using asset protection best practices, you may be able to help yourself an...
Evaluating Your Minneapolis Commercial Real Estate
Commercial property owners assess their properties from time to time. Of course, that real estate may be evaluated from several different viewpoints. In this article, we will focus on evaluating your ...
Will Minnesota Antitrust Laws Affect Your Merger or Acquisition?
A lot goes into a merger or acquisition. Companies generally look at the deal from every angle to make sure the deal is advantageous. Numerous rules, regulations, and laws may apply to transaction, in...
Estate Planning for the Blended Family
Families are becoming more complex. Sometimes a newly-married couple each have children from previous marriages, and plan to have more. Other couples marry later in life when both have adult children....
Is Trust-Based Estate Planning the Way to Go?
As Jennifer researched “Wills” online as she pondered her estate plan. Then she ran across some articles about will-based and trust-based estate planning. After a little more research, she found h...
Updating Your MSA
Master service providers, or MSPs, manage the IT infrastructure and end-user systems that keep their clients’ companies humming. What keeps your MSP-client relationship running without a hitch? A go...
Single? There’s an Estate Plan for You!
Sometimes it seems estate planning focuses on married couples to the exclusion of singles. But unmarried people have just as much to gain from estate planning as a couple. In fact, spouses and singles...
If I Establish a DAPT in Another State, Will it Hold Up?
Daryl, a Minnesota resident, discussed asset protection strategies with his estate planning attorney. As they considered his options, they discussed establishing a domestic asset protection trust (DAP...
Estate Planning at Any Age
Estate planning is not just for the over-60 crowd. In fact, estate planning documents affects people of every age. Looking at every stage of life, it’s easy to see how documents like Wills or trusts...
Right of First Offer vs. Right of First Refusal, which generates a more fair result.
By Thomas M. Fafinski Most of us are familiar with the right of first refusal (“ROFR”) but not with the right of first offer (“ROFO”). Generally, a ROFR is advantageous to th...