Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on Building Generational Wealth. Wealth in money, values, beliefs and traditions. Every opportunity to create buzz and excitement is just that. So the next time someone asks what’s new or what’s happening, instead of: Nothing or…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Death. The final frontier. No one wants to face the final conclusion so we do everything we can to avoid it. Plastic Surgery,…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Today I want to focus on a simple (not really) question that we get asked many times by people. Do I need a…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Last week we provided our readers with a special edition on the new tax law. This edition we thought we would continue the…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Happy New Year. Or is it. I can’t help but come back to some old cliches like “be careful what you wish for”…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. As we approach the holiday season we wish you a Happy Holiday and a joyous and safe New Year. Given the timing of…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We at Legacy Legal and Family Legacy Trainings appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly insights on the relationship between estate planning, tax law, financial matters and human dynamics. Today I want to talk about lying and regulation. I read a great article about the human psychology behind lying. If we think…
Welcome to Straight Talk #5. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary. Today’s comments concern risk. There is risk in everything we do. Crossing the street, driving our car, doing business and so forth. Everyone’s tolerance for risk is different. Some aren’t willing to take much risk at all. Others leap out of perfectly…
Welcome Everyone to Straight Talk and we hope you had a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary. In a recent radio program on which I was a guest, we started off with the question of the purpose of taxes. The simple answer of course is to raise revenue or at…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary and we wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. Eat well, be healthy and enjoy family and friends. For me, it just feels like a good holiday season in spite of all that goes on in the world. For our family our daughter…