{"id":479,"date":"2009-11-15T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T02:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-11-15T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T02:58:27","slug":"the-kids-are-allright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/the-kids-are-allright\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are Allright"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kidsallrightbook\"The heading of this post is also the name of a great book that I just finished reading, “The Kids Are Allright.”\u00a0 The book is written by Liz and Diana Welch, two of the four children around whom the story centers.\u00a0 The Welch children grew up in a privileged atmosphere: a father who was a successful business man (or was he?) and a mother who was an actress and soap opera star.\u00a0 Through an unfortunate turn of events, they were orphaned in the mid-1980’s.\u00a0 This book describes their life before and after their parents died, how it affected them, and,ultimately, how they overcame the struggles.\u00a0 At its root, the book is a story of the human spirit and how the bonds of family (and siblings in particular) can overcome even the most difficult circumstances.\u00a0 There is an important legal message here too – you must<\/span> plan for your children’s care in your absence.\u00a0 The story really brings that point home as you see the struggles faced by the Welch children upon their mother’s death.\u00a0 Arranging their care and providing for them was an absolute mess because their mother had neglected to properly plan (understandably so as she battled cancer in her final years).\u00a0 I encourage everyone to read this book to get a real life example of the important of proper estate planning.<\/p>\n

As an added bonus, a personal friend (and attorney), Alexis Martin Neely, recently interviewed Liz and Diana Welch to discuss the book and estate planning.\u00a0 I encourage you to listen to this call.\u00a0 You can find it here:\u00a0 http:\/\/bit.ly\/4A6KpE<\/a>.\u00a0 Although it will make more sense if you have already read the book, it is valuable whether you have or have not.\u00a0 Please share your thoughts after reading and\/or listening.<\/p>\n

And as a reminder, I am available to hold guardianship workshops for parent groups.\u00a0 It is very beneficial whether it be a school (public or private), a home school group, mom’s group, dad’s group, or some other parent group.\u00a0 Parents will walk away with the information they need to know about proper planning and having nominated long-term guardians for their children<\/strong>.\u00a0 Best of all, it is FREE!\u00a0 If you or someone you know\u00a0 is interested in having me conduct a guardianship workshop, please call (616) 827-7596 and talk with Paula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heading of this post is also the name of a great book that I just finished reading, “The Kids Are Allright.”\u00a0 The book is written by Liz and Diana Welch, two of the four children around whom the story centers.\u00a0 The Welch children grew up in a privileged atmosphere: a father who was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estate-planning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lichtermanlaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}