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Category: Aging Well
- The Missing Link in Thriving as You Age: Elder Care Coordination & Life Care Planning.
- Driving Safely As You Age -Guest Blog by Terri Cassidy of Health Promotion Partners
- 3 Gestures to Improve Your Well-Being
Category: Articles by Catherine
- Repairing Family Rifts: The Transformative Role of Estate Planning
- Three Stages of Care in Life & How to Plan for Them
- FDIC Insurance & Revocable Living Trusts
- Why You Should Review Your Estate Plan
- Does your estate planning team know the playbook? Try a family meeting.
- Cryptocurrency Confusion?
- Don’t “avoid the 5 year Medicaid lookback period.” Plan for it instead.
- How will you get the care you deserve? Everybody needs a plan
- Tips for Talking to your Parents About Estate Planning
- Why You Need to Know About Palliative Care
- Preparing Your Beneficiaries for Their Inheritance
- How to Maintain Family Harmony When You’re Gone
- The 3 Biggest Challenges in Setting Up Your Estate Plan
- To Roth or not to Roth
- What to Do When a Loved One Dies
- The Five Most Common Successor Trustee Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)
- Is it time to re-allocate some of your assets?
- Why you should barely notice a good estate plan in an emergency.
- How to Actually Support Your Loved Ones
- How to Avoid Estate Planning and Probate Scams
- December vBlog – Death and Taxes – Support for HLG clients and friends
- 15 years at Hammond Law Group — Stories of tragedy and triumph, of love and drama and of heartache and hope
- What your family needs to know about your estate plan
- Even Better Than Leaving A Legacy
- Best Attorney in Colorado Springs
- The Hidden Benefit of Estate Planning
- COVID-19 & Your Estate Plan
- It’s Not a Bank Anymore: a Cure for Unhappiness
- The Universalism of Sorrow
Category: Asset Protection
- Workshop – Understanding Beneficiary Trust Shares: What Protections They Afford and Why They’re Important
- Your Legacy Is At Risk. Consider a Professional Trustee.
- Buzz Aldrin’s Revocable Living Trust: Has It Lived Up to Its Goal?
- Protect Your Assets from Lawsuits and Creditors
- Why You Need to Include Digital Assets in Your Estate Plan
- How to Protect Yourself and Your Assets from Elder Abuse
- Ensuring Your Pets are Cared For with a Pet Trust
- How to Provide for your Loved Ones After You’re Gone
- How to Avoid Ruining your Family with Probate
- Administering Digital Assets
- Post-Divorce Estate Planning in Colorado Springs: Estate Planning and Your Divorce
- Understanding Asset Protection in Colorado
- Protecting the Elderly From Financial Predators
- How to Calculate Your Net Worth
- What is a Trust?
Category: Blended Family
- Estate Planning Start to Finish: One Couple’s Experience
- Avoiding the Mess: Why Estate Planning is Essential for Blended Families
- Caregivers: Taking Care of Yourself as You Provide Care for Another
- What Happens to My Estate Plan If I Get Divorced?
Category: Client Workshops & Events
- Workshop – Understanding Your Estate Plan 2025
- Webinar–COVID-19 & Your Estate Plan: Changes You Should Make During the Pandemic
- Talent Show!
- Holistic Wealth
- Critical and Costly Retirement Mistakes & How You Can Avoid Them
- Brain Health: Reducing and Reversing Cognitive Decline
Category: Elder Law
- What Everyone Can Learn from Aretha Franklin’s Lack of Estate Planning
- How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones from Financial Elder Abuse
- Divorce and Estate Planning
- How to Decide to Take Away the Keys From Mom or Dad
- Five Tips for Dealing with Difficult Aging Parents
- Architects Changing Designs As More Seniors Choose to Stay at Home
- Estate Planning for the Childless
- Common Questions About Alzheimer’s and Estate Planning
- Remember National Caregivers Month
- Estate Planning Issues You Need to Think About if You’re a Single Retiree
- Do Your Parents Need Elder Care?
- Economic Downturn, Closer Families
- Alzheimer’s: Knowing What to Look Out For
- What do Mickey Rooney and Brooke Astor have in Common?
- What Happens When a Guardianship is Requested?
- Four Tips for Transitioning a Loved one to a Nursing Home
- Signs of Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
- Guardianship Attorneys and Their Role in Elder Law
- Incapacity Planning and Long Distance Care
- Three Ways to Address Nursing Home Expenses
- Three Alternatives to Guardianship
- Elder Law: Signs of Financial Elder Exploitation
- Nursing Home Law: Using Restraints on Nursing Home Patients
Category: Estate Planning
- How Business Succession Planning Fits into Your Estate Plan
- 10 Proven Wealth Preservation Strategies to Secure Your Financial Future
- How to Pass on Your Car Collection through Estate Planning
- How the Rich Stay Rich Through Strategic Charitable Giving Strategies
- How to Pass on the Family Business (& Values) to the Next Generation
- How to Prepare for the Great Generational Wealth Transfer
- Workshop – Purposeful Planning
- Keeping It in the Family: 7 Tips on Educating the Next Generation About Wealth
- How to Save for Retirement in Your 40s
- 9 Powerful Tax Planning Strategies to Implement Before the Year Ends
- Why Life Insurance Can Make or Break Your Estate Plans
- How Estate and Financial Planning Work Together for Ultimate Wealth Protection
- What is the Gift Tax Exclusion for 2024?
- Lasting Legacies: Escaping the “Rags to Riches” Trap
- Workshop – Unsabotage Your Estate Plan
- How to Maximize FDIC Insurance Coverage for Revocable and Irrevocable Trust Accounts
- How Much Does an Estate Have to Be Worth to Go to Probate in Colorado?
- Is Your Colorado Will Valid? Check for These 6 Fatal Flaws That Can Void Your Wishes
- What’s the Time Limit for an Executor to Pay Out Inheritances?
- How Your Family Meeting avoids conflict and secures your estate plan
- The Ultimate Estate Planning Checklist for 2023
- Anyone Can Inherit the House. The Lucky Few Inherit the Wisdom, Direction, and Values That Made the House Possible.
- 5 Most Common Estate Planning Mistakes & How To Avoid Them
- One easy way to destroy your estate plan: Real Estate and refinancing
- How should you prepare for the healthcare decisions your family may need to make?
- Life can change in the blink of an eye or the drawing of a breath.
- Why they’re not singing in Italy anymore
- SECURE Act: Stretch Inherited IRA Replaced with 10 Year Rule
- 3 Must-Dos to Reach your Goals in 2020
- How to Stay Alive Long Enough Without Staying Alive Too Long
- Funding Your Living Trust with Hammond Law Group
- 5 End of Life Planning Documents Everyone Needs
- Colorado Uniform Trust Code: Notice to Beneficiaries
- 3 Healthcare Documents Your Adult Children Should Sign
- Planning for Death or Disability Will Save Your Loved Ones from Headache and Heartache
- Passport. Hotel Reservations. Living Trust?
- 2019 Estate Tax Tips: The Estate Tax and Gift Tax
- Funeral Crowdfunding Is Not the Answer; Funeral Planning Is
- Preparing for the Unexpected: What Happens to Your Kids if Something Happens to You?
- Safeguarding Your Estate Planning Documents: Where to Secure These Important Papers?
- What We Can Learn from Barbara Bush about End-of-Life Care
- Estate Planning and Succession Planning: Helping to Pass Along a Family Business’ Values as well as Assets
- Tax Changes and Estate Planning
- Trusts: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know
- Why the Holidays Are the Perfect Time to Discuss Your End-of-Life Wishes
- Talking with Family About Estate Planning
- What is the Cost of a Do-It-Yourself Will? It Could Be Everything.
- Millennials: Life is Uncertain, But Your Emergency Care Doesn’t Have to Be
- Estate Planning and Dementia – How Setting Your Affairs in Order Will Ease the Stress on Your Family
- Estate Planning Documents You Might Not Have Considered
- Estate Planning When You Have Minor Children
- Fiduciaries in Estate Planning
- Estate Planning to Reflect Your Values
- What’s the Difference Between a Solvent and Insolvent Estate?
- Traits Your Health Care Agent Should Have
- Home Ownership and Estate Planning
- Estate Planning Communication
- Ten Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Guardian for Children
- The Miraculous Landing of Sully Sullenberger: What Would Go Through Your Mind?
- Essential Estate Planning Knowledge – Registering Your Plan
- Protecting Digital Assets Becomes More Complex Every Day
- Essential Estate Planning Knowledge – Inheritance Planning
- Essential Colorado Estate Planning Knowledge – Wills and Living Wills
- Essential Colorado Estate Planning Knowledge – Out of State Estate Plans
- Estate Planning Precautions for Seniors Getting Married
- Advanced Directives
- Essential Colorado Estate Planning Knowledge – The Letter of Intent
- Faith and Estate Planning Go Hand-in-Hand
- Estate Plans for Newlyweds in Colorado
- Trusts in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions and Practical Answers
- National Estate Planning Awareness Week is Approaching
- Essential Estate Planning – The Executor
- Estate Planning For Seniors in Colorado: Key Concepts
- Some Curious Estate Planning Historical Facts
- Take Time to Review Your Colorado Estate Plan
- Choosing Between a Will and a Power of Attorney
- Parents of Young Adults: Why You Need to Care About HIPAA
- Young, Single, and No Estate Plan
- Legal Documents to Have in Place When Your Child Turns 18
- Essential Estate Planning Ideas, Part 4: Not Having a Plan
- Pet Trusts And Your Life Insurance Policy – 3 Questions
- Essential Estate Planning Ideas, Part 3: Why You Need a Plan Right Now
- When College Students Die Leaving Behind Debts
- Estate Planning Issues Married Couples Need to Think About
- Essential Estate Planning Ideas, Part 2: Incapacity Planning
- Essential Estate Planning Ideas, Part 1: Your Estate
- Basic Legal Questions About Estate Planning
- 3 Estate Planning Tips
- DIY Will Cautionary Tale
- Estate Planning Mistakes Can Be Costly – Part 2
- Estate Planning Mistakes Can Be Costly – Part 1
- Commonly Asked Questions About Estate Planning In an Emergency
- 3 Myths About Revocable Living Trusts
- Owning a Home in Colorado With a Living Trust
- Understanding Estate Litigation in Colorado
- Here’s How to Follow-Through On Your Estate Planning Resolution in 2014
- The 4 Types of Will Gifts
- Will my Will Expire? Common Colorado Will Questions
- Questions To Ask Your Estate Planning Attorney
- Lost Wills and Colorado Probate
- 4 Issues to Think About When Choosing an Attorney-in-Fact
- Power of Attorney Mistake #1: Doing it Yourself
- Frequently Asked Questions About Changing Living Trust Terms
- Boomer Survey: Family Memories Prized More Than Inheritances
- What Should I Do When Someone Dies?
- Why People Delay in Crafting an Estate Plan
- Three Questions About Pet Trusts
- Probate Property – 3 Main Types
- Do I Have to Pay for my Deceased Spouse’s Debts?
- Obesity Rise Costing Medicaid More
- “Painter of Light” Estate Already Embroiled in Legal Fight
- Estate Planning and Moving – 3 Questions
- Brook Astor Estate Battle Ends In Settlement
- The Accidental Disinheritance: How To Avoid Unintentionally Leaving Someone Out of Your Estate
- Choosing a Charity When Estate Planning – 4 Steps
- Choosing An Inheritance That Will Leave Joy, Not Despair – 2 Issues
- Dangerous Estate Planning Myths
- Proposed Legislation Grants Executors Rights Over Facebook Accounts
- Fraud Alleged In Heiress’s Estate
- What can a Probate Attorney do for You?
- Can You Name a Child as a Beneficiary to Your IRA?
- Advance Medical Directives: Top Three Problems of Living Wills
- Does a Reverse Mortgage Impact Your Estate Plan?
- Four Items a Will Should Have
- Is My Life Insurance Policy Going to be Taxed?
- Why You Must Plan Sooner, Not Later
- Ancillary Probate Explained
- Estate Planning and Life Insurance: Working Together
- What Can Life Insurance do for Your Estate Plan?
- Getting Started on a Retirement Plan
- Estate and Death Taxes: What is the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax?
- Why Does Probate Take so Long?
- What is a Pour-over Will?
- What is the Difference Between Estate and Inheritance Taxes?
- Advance Directives – Maintaining Control of your Medical Care
- Capacity and Contesting a Will
- What is a Life Insurance Trust?
- Seven Reasons to Begin Estate Planning Now
- What is a Fiduciary?
- Choosing an Executor for Your Estate
- Seven Questions You Will Need to Answer When Creating a Trust
- Estate Planning: What is the Difference Between Joint Tenancy and Tenancy In Common
- What is the Difference Between Being the Beneficiary of a Trust vs. a Will?
- New Estate Tax Laws Should Trigger an Estate Plan Update
- How a Will is Made Self Proving
- Estate Planning and Trusts – Are They Just for the Wealthy?
- Will you be my Executor?
- New Year’s Resolutions and Estate Planning
- The Gift of Giving
- What Does a Pet Trust Do?
- HIPAA and Your Estate Plan
- Uncovering the Myths of Living Trusts
- Why Estate Plans Need a Durable Power of Attorney
- Estate Planning Terms Defined
- Why You Should Discuss Your Estate Plan With Family
- Which is More Difficult – Contesting a Will or Challenging a Trust?
- The Basics of Term Life Insurance
- Home Modifications: Easy Living for Seniors
- Life Insurance Proceeds and Your Debts
- Medicaid and Estate Recovery
- Who Needs to Know About Your Estate Plan?
- Estate Planning in Your 30s
- What is Probate?
- Tools for the Family Wealth Trust
- Five Reasons To Buy Life Insurance Today
- What is a Fiduciary?
- Using Payable on Death Accounts to Avoid Probate
- How to Update Your Last Will and Testament
- What is Basic Estate Planning?
- How Is Your Property Titled?
- What’s the Difference Between a Living Trust and a Testamentary Trust?
Category: Estate Planning for Divorce
- Estate Planning Tips for the Newly Divorced
Category: Estate Taxes
- Does my Family Have to Pay my Estate Taxes?
- What’s the Difference Between Estate and Inheritance Taxes?
- Using Your Will and Living Trust Together
- Estate Tax Terms You Need to Know
- Estate Tax Basics
Category: Family Wealth Trust
Category: Featured
- Workshop – Taking Control of Your Healthcare Decisions
- Purposeful Planning – Leaving What Really Matters in order to Heal the Generations
- It’s About Time Podcast – I’m Dying, How Are You?
- Ahead of the Game: A Beginner’s Guide to IRA Distribution Rules and Beneficiary Designations for Estate Planning
- Your Family’s Investments Require a Strategic Change
- When the Worst Investment Turns Out to be the Best Plan
- Advanced Directives and DocuBank
- Medicaid Eligibility in Colorado
- Avoid being a burden to your family; plan for long term care before you need it.
- Webinar – Elevating Your Relationship
- Webinar – Special Co-Trustees
- Do I Need a Living Trust?
- Webinar – 8 Deadly Mistakes: The Ways Clients Routinely Destroy Their Estate Plans
- Webinar–Coffee With Catherine: Ask Me Anything
- Breathing Meditation Plus Chair Yoga
- Before I Die Dreamboards
- Medicaid Qualification
Category: Financial Planning
- Taxes and Retirement – Plan Now to Save Thousands
- Creating a Legacy of Gifting: Charitable Giving in Estate Plans
- How to Terminate a Power of Attorney
- Inheritance Transfers in Colorado
- Practical Precautions When Using Payable-on-Death Accounts
- Common Questions About Inheritances and Taxes
- The Election’s Over … Now What Happens to My Money?
- The Uniform Gift to Minors Act
- What Happens to Your Retirement Account When You Die?
- Are You Ready To Begin Investing?
Category: Funeral Planning
- Funeral Planning
- Estate Planning: Paying Funeral Expenses
- Funeral Plans: Making Your Wishes Known
Category: General
- “Before I Die” Boards Encourage Community to Think About Life
- Local Law Firm Encourages Community to Re-Imagine Their Relationship with Death
- Learning From Casey Kasem
- Probate Is Not What You Think It Is
Category: Guardianship
- What is a Guardianship?
- Guardians ad Litem in Colorado Probate
- What Are a Guardian’s Responsibilities?
- How to Avoid Conservatorship With Revocable Living Trusts
Category: Incapacity Planning
- Advance Directives: The Most Important Documents You Don’t Have
- Frequently Asked Questions About Medicaid Planning
- Colorado Approves Legislation Allowing Aid-in-Dying
- Essential Estate Planning Knowledge – Medical Directives
- Incapacity Planning in Colorado Tip Sheet
- Britney Maynard’s Death Sparks Many to Discuss End-of-Life Desires
- Medical Incapacity Planning Terms You Should Know – Part 2
- Medical Incapacity Planning Terms You Should Know – Part 1
- DNR Tattoos in Colorado
- Brain Death, Coma, and PVS
- Judge Orders Texas Pregnant Woman Removed From Life Support
- Durable Power of Attorney in Colorado
- Ensuring Your Power of Attorney is Accepted
- The Difference Between a Medical Power of Attorney and a Living Will
- What Makes A Power of Attorney Durable
- Signs of Nursing Home Neglect
- How to Plan for Disability
Category: Insurance
- 4 Things to Consider for your 2020 Medicare Benefits
- Could The New Healthcare Bill Make it Harder for You to Afford Retirement? A Great Estate Plan Can Help You Rest Easy.
Category: Legacy Protection Plan
Category: Legacy Protection Plan Workshops
- Webinar – Financial Well Being
Category: Medicaid
- The Role of Compensation in Estate and Medicaid Planning
- Five Things you Need to Know About Colorado’s Medicaid Recovery Program
- Medicaid Law: Colorado’s Partnership for Long Term Care Insurance
Category: Parents w/Young Children
- 4 Legal Documents You Need for Child Custody if Both Parents Pass Away
- Three Estate Planning Considerations for Parents with Adopted Children
- Where Will Your Children Go if You Were to Pass Away Tomorrow?
- Estate Plan Changes to Make as Your Family Grows
- 4 Important Estate Planning Documents that Parents of Young Children Need to Have
Category: Personal Property
- Evaluating Personal Property Value in an Estate
Category: Pet Planning
- Pet Planning in Colorado: Questions for Elderly Pet Owners
Category: Planning
- What is a Trustee?
- Webinar: Why a Will Isn’t Enough
Category: Powers of Attorney
- Why Your Healthcare Wishes and Family Legacy Should be a Resolution This Year
- Powers of Attorney For Your Summer Vacation
Category: Press Release
Category: Previous Workshops
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, September 22, 2015 – 6:30
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, September 26, 2015
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, October 3rd, 2015
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, October 6, 2015 – 6:30 PM
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, October 21, 2015
- Protecting Your Child’s Future If You’re Not Around, October 22, 2015
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, October 24, 2015
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, September 10th
- Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning, September 10th
- What To Do When A Loved One Dies, August 18th
Category: Probate
- How Long Do You Have to File Probate After Death in Colorado?
- How NOT to Avoid Probate
- When is Probate Necessary?
- Probate in Colorado
- Probate & Estate Planning Considerations for the Different forms of Real Property Titles in Colorado
- Colorado Probate Terms You Should Know
- Pour-Over Wills and Living Trusts in Colorado, the Estate Planning Dynamic Duo
- How to Be the Worst Personal Representative Ever
- Coleman Estate Battle Coming To An End
- Contesting a Will – 3 Key Issues
- What Are the Duties of an Executor?
Category: Probate / Trust Administration
Category: Public Workshops & Events
Category: Retirement Planning
- Tips For Boomers Who Don’t Want to Become a Burden
- Do Your Retirement and Estate Plans Address These Four Risks?
- Retirement Planning in Your Twenties and Thirties
Category: Small Business Planning
- Defining Your Small Business for Estate Planning
Category: Special Needs
- Essential Estate Planning Knowledge – Special Needs Planning
- The Special Needs Trust
Category: Uncategorized
- Workshop: Enhancing Your Relationship with Your Adult Children
- Workshop – Medicare Made Simple
- What is a Spendthrift Trust, and When Would You Need One?
- What Happens in Colorado Probate Court? A Step-by-Step Guide
- It’s About Time with Catherine Hammond Podcast
Category: Upcoming Client Workshops
Category: Upcoming Legacy Workshops
- LPP Workshop – The TrueWealth Legacy (SM) System
Category: Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefits
- 3 Questions About Veterans AA Pension
- Veterans Aid and Attendance Benefits
Category: Webinars
- Financial Webinar – Retirement Pitfalls
Category: Wills & Trusts
- What Happens to Homes When Owners Pass Without Wills?
- The Biggest Mistake Parents Make When Setting Up a Trust Fund
- Is a Charitable Trust Right for Your Estate Plan?
- Essential Colorado Estate Planning Knowledge – So Many Trusts
- Estate Planning Knowledge – Pour-Over Wills
- The Trustee’s Role in Your Estate Plan
- Protecting Inheritances Through Living Trusts
- What Happens to my Trust When I Cannot Manage it Anymore?
- Your Colorado Will After Marriage, Divorce, or Children
- Will Basics: What Wills Cover, and What They Don’t
- Children Born After You Make Your Will: 3 Questions
- My Grandchild is an Addict. How do I Leave a Responsible Inheritance?
- Your Colorado Gun Collection – Why A Gun Trust May Be Right For You
- The Biggest Myth of a Living Trust
- Wills & Estates – Fact vs. Fiction
- Three Ways a Living Trust May Benefit an Estate Plan
- Estate Planning – What is an Ethical Will?
- Five Prep Steps to Creating a Will
- Five Things a Living Trust CANNOT do for Your Estate
- Three Types of Trust Property
- Is Your Will Valid?
- Four Basic Components Every Will Must Have
Category: Workshops

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