James D. Foster, Attorney at Law, PLLC

01/24/2025

Whether it's artwork, jewelry, or your cassette collection, you will want to evaluate your estate plan to ensure your collection is handled the way you want.

01/23/2025

Do you have questions about estate planning? Whether you are unsure about where to begin or what to do to update an existing plan, we can help. Give us a call today!

01/22/2025

Wondering if you really need an estate plan? The answer is yes!

Ordinary possessions like homes, jewelry, bank accounts, cars, furniture — basically anything you can own — are a part your estate. Even if you don't consider yourself the owner of an estate, you almost certainly are!

01/21/2025

Protecting your business, along with yourself and your family, should be at least as much a priority as the day-to-day management of your business.

Building a business is hard work. With so many pressing obligations, timely estate and succession planning can easily be overlooked. Let us help.

01/20/2025

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Martin Luther King Jr. in Letter from the Birmingham Jail

01/16/2025

Comprehensive estate planning can provide for your family and friends when you are gone AND offers many significant benefits of vital importance for you while you're still alive.

Estate planning, simply put, is the process of making decisions about what happens to you, your money, and your property when you pass away OR while you are still living, but can no longer make decisions for yourself.

01/15/2025

Do you have an estate plan in place? Regardless of the value, it is important that your personal property -- whether it's grandma's tea set, a guitar collection, or family photos -- be distributed the way you want when you die. Here are a few considerations: https://bit.ly/PPMTN

01/14/2025

Can a Revocable Living Trust be a good option for estate planning in Tennessee? Check out our ABCs of RLTs for the answer! 👉 https://bit.ly/ABCsOfRLTs

A revocable living trust (sometimes called a revocable trust, an inter vivos trust, or a living trust) is a trust that you create during your lifetime and can change at any time prior to your incapacity or death.

01/13/2025

While we might think that it should be at the top of everyone's to-do list, we also know that estate planning can be an overwhelming topic to dive into at first. Need help? Here are 13 terms to help get you started: https://bit.ly/13EPTerms

Estate planning can be an overwhelming topic to dive into at first. To help you get oriented, below are some important terms to know as you consider your own estate plan.

01/10/2025

A disastrous southern storm can happen any time of the year. Take time now to consider these estate planning questions that can help you protect the people and possessions you value most: https://bit.ly/PreparedEP

As we all have learned from 2020, unpredictable events can occur at any time: fires, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, pandemics—you name it. We want you to have the peace of knowing that you are prepared for the unexpected. Although none of us can predict the future, there are some things you ...

01/09/2025

Whether you are starting from scratch or updating an existing estate plan, we can help you create a plan that works for your specific situation.

01/08/2025

It's not too late to set yourself up for success in the new year by adding these 5 estate planning items to your to-do list now: 👉 https://bit.ly/5EPTasks

Though preparations for holiday festivities and the new year may look a little different this December, the value of taking stock of your estate plan and finances before the end of the year has not changed. Before you launch into the new year, here are some things we recommend adding to your year-en...