At Geyer Legal Group, PC, we’re dedicated to providing in-depth counseling to individuals and families to accomplish practical estate planning solutions. That includes staying abreast of new developments in investments. tax law, and insurance. One tool that has...
Estate Planning
Why Health Savings Accounts Can Be Significant in Retirement Planning
“While retirement planning and estate planning are linked, you need to prioritize for everyone to benefit,” firstcoastadvisors.com explains. If you don’t put retirement first, you risk becoming a burden to your children, yet at the same time you wish to secure the...
Why Your Doctors Are Part of Your Estate Planning Team
“If you are to get the medical care you need,” cautions Tim Prosch in the book The Other Talk, ” you and your family will need to learn how to take control of your healthcare.” At Geyer law, we convey the same message to our estate planning clients. Appointing someone...
How Life Partners Can Inadvertently Disinherit Each Other
“You have to be vigilant to make sure assets will pass to the other when one of you dies,” Marcia Passos Duffy writes in Bankrate.com, referring to unmarried couples living together. “When life partners don’t tie the knot,” Duffy adds, “they don’t enjoy the financial...
Does Indiana Law Require Filial Support?
May an adult child be found financially responsible for a parent’s long term medical care? Back in the 1500’s, under English law, a child had a duty to contribute to the cost of a parent’s care, if parents lacked the ability to care for themselves. Does that...
How-Not-To Estate Planning Lessons From Dead Celebs
“Dying without a will doesn’t damage the deceased, but it sure makes it hard on the survivors,” observed John J. Scroggin, J.S., LL.M., AEP at a regional symposium of the Financial Planning Association, citing some notable examples: (1865) Abraham Lincoln died...
The IRA That Doesn’t Care How Old You Are
As long as you have earned compensation, whether it is a regular paycheck or 1099 income for contract work, you can contribute to a Roth IRA – no matter how old you are, Fidelity reminds investors. 2017 Roth contribution limits are $5,500 for those under age 50,...
How Portable Are Your Estate Planning Documents?
At Geyer Legal Group, PC, a full service estate planning and elder law firm, we serve the people of central Indiana. But, if you move to another state, must you get rid of your estate planning documents and start over from scratch? The answer? “Yes and no”. First...
Pearl Harbor Victim Planned His Own Funeral
Raymond Haerry made a thoughtful decision about his own funeral – he left instructions for his body to be brought back to the sunken USS Arizona ship on which he had served more than 70 years ago. Haerry, only 19 when his ship was attacked at Pearl Harbor, lived in...
Estate Planning for the New Millionaire Next Door
More than twenty years have passed since Tom Stanley and William Danko published their best-selling book The Millionaire Next Door, documenting how wealthy households tend to handle their personal finances, making the statement that wealth is not what you spend, but...

