by Leonard Baer | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog, Elder Law News, Financial Planning, Financial Scams
There was a great line from the movie, Network… “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take this anymore.” That line is very fitting for me because I am mad! Awhile ago, I wrote an article on IRS scams in which people are called and informed that they owe back taxes....
by Leonard Baer | May 12, 2021 | Aging, Blog, Elder Law News, Financial Scams
I received a frantic call from a distraught family member saying that her mother has been scammed out of thousands of dollars. The mother, a woman in her seventies, had responded to a Nigerian Scam, which claimed the mother had a fund in the amount of $5,000,000. They...
by Leonard Baer | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles, Elder Law News, Estate Planning, Financial Planning
In these challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic, estate planning can be at the forefront of ensuring that clients and their loved ones are protected. Certain high-risk groups, such as medical professionals, first responders and the elderly or other compromised...
by Leonard Baer | Feb 21, 2018 | Aging, Blog, Elder Law News, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Scams, Uncategorized
How heavy is a human heart, you ask? The answer is that it is so heavy that it’s been weighing me down. It’s so heavy that I haven’t been able to breathe deeply or move from one room to another. It’s so heavy that my body trembles when I hear the evening news. ...
by Leonard Baer | Feb 7, 2018 | Aging, Blog, Elder Law News, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Scams, Uncategorized
When it comes to youngsters, we accept apologies for bad behavior. We’ll forgive them for tipping over a lamp while they’re wrestling. We talk to them about the bad behavior and use the incident as a life lesson. How about later on, though? Do we accept apologies...
by Leonard Baer | Jan 24, 2018 | Aging, Blog, Elder Law News, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Scams, Uncategorized
Shake, Rattle, and Roll is the title of the Bill Haley hit from the fifties, but it could be so much more. It could also be a tactic to fend off an attack or even, to save your life. Recently, I assisted in teaching a class of twenty-eight women on self-defense. We...
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