Should Your Trust Own Your Business?

The question often arises as to whether the family company, a corporation, LLC, or limited partnership, should be owned by the parent’s living trust. Owned by the trust probably isn’t a good way of phrasing the statement. The company is owned by whoever owns the stock. (In

Lessons from The Madoff Ponzi Scheme

There are a couple of lessons learned from the Bernie Madoff scam that business persons can make sure they are observing. Bernie and his wife made a couple of mistakes. (Well, maybe more than a couple.) They were just flat out illegal in most of what they

Accident

Accidents can happen at any time.  Yesterday as Lee and I were headed home for lunch, we were stopped at a stop light waiting to turn right. Lee crept out into the intersection when suddenly we were hit from behind. There was not much damage to the