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The law can seem like a daunting and complex tangle. The attorneys of Cunningham Dalman are here to help. If you require legal representation or would like to seek advice from a law expert, we hope you’ll talk with someone at our firm. We also encourage you to learn more about legal issues that matter to you. On this page you will find valuable information about many different aspects of the law. We encourage you to spend some time browsing this collection of posts written by Cunningham Dalman attorneys.
Do Not Resuscitate vs. Life Sustaining Treatment
Have You Funded Your Trust?
How to Decide On a Financial Decision Maker for Your Estate Plan
Rule Change: Protecting a Home and Medicaid Benefits
Some Thoughts on Sharing Your Estate Plan with Your Family
Some Helpful Estate Planning Tips That Your Attorney May Not Have Mentioned
Your Home is a Non-Countable Asset for Nursing Home Medicaid Benefits – But What About Their Home?
The Mulders Receive the Good Shepherd Award from Resthaven
What Will a Terror Clause Do for Your Trust?
A Few Unique Powers of Attorney That You Might Want To Consider
- Jessica Arends
- Carole D. Bos
- Derek W. Dalman
- Jennifer DeYoung
- Nicholas R. Dekker
- Vincent L. Duckworth
- John Fitzpatrick
- Bradley Glazier
- Lindsey J. Gorsline
- Jeffrey K. Helder
- Rachel L. Hillegonds
- Thomas J. Hillegonds
- Robert Howard
- Gregory J. McCoy
- Andrew J. Mulder
- P. Haans Mulder
- Randall S. Schipper
- Carl Thorwall
- Ronald J. Vander Veen
- Susan E. Vroegop
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- Ronald L. Dalman
- James A. Bidol
- David M. Zessin
- Joel G. Bouwens
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- Banking & Commercial Transactions
- Bankruptcy Law - Corporate
- Bankruptcy Law - Personal
- Business & Corporate Law
- Construction Law
- Criminal Law
- Elder Law / Medicaid Planning
- Employment Law for Employees
- Employment Law for Employers
- Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts
- Family Law & Divorce
- Litigation
- Municipal & Administrative Law
- Personal Injury / Insurance Defense
- Probate Law
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The law can seem like a daunting and complex tangle. The attorneys of Cunningham Dalman are here to help. If you require legal representation or would like to seek advice from a law expert, we hope you’ll talk with someone at our firm. We also encourage you to learn more about legal issues that matter to you. On this page you will find valuable information about many different aspects of the law. We encourage you to spend some time browsing this collection of posts written by Cunningham Dalman attorneys.
Do Not Resuscitate vs. Life Sustaining Treatment
Every estate plan should include a document naming someone else to handle medical decisions when you are no longer able to. The terminology most commonly associated with this document includes: a medical directive, advanced directive, living will, patient advocate, and health care power of attorney. No matter the name, this document contains important language about
Have You Funded Your Trust?
One of the primary reasons people create a trust is to avoid probate. A revocable living trust is the most typical trust used to ensure that your wishes are carried out. But sometimes this well-intended plan falls short if the trust is never funded. I always tell clients that their estate plan is not done
How to Decide On a Financial Decision Maker for Your Estate Plan
This is often a difficult decision. Some people struggle because they’d like to name all of their children, but understand that may only complicate the process. Others have a child or person in mind who is very capable, but he or she lives far away from them. Other people don’t have any children or friends
Rule Change: Protecting a Home and Medicaid Benefits
Many people who require in-home care, assisted living, or nursing home care rely on Medicaid programs to help pay for their care when they do not have enough funds to pay for it on their own. Historically, the Medicaid applicant’s home (if not in a revocable living trust), has been a non-countable/exempt asset for Medicaid
Some Thoughts on Sharing Your Estate Plan with Your Family
It is a very personal decision to determine whether to share your estate plan with your family. Except for the most extreme of circumstances, you will never be required to share the plan while you are alive. So, when the question of whether to share the plan is asked of me as an estate planner,
Some Helpful Estate Planning Tips That Your Attorney May Not Have Mentioned
If you have worked with an estate planning attorney before, it goes without saying that your primary focus was on the documents themselves – a will, maybe a trust, powers of attorney, etc. And hopefully when you concluded the process and your estate planning documents were signed, you also received some instruction on the next
Your Home is a Non-Countable Asset for Nursing Home Medicaid Benefits – But What About Their Home?
It is commonly understood that a single person or couple can keep their home and still be eligible for Medicaid benefits to help with the cost of assisted living or skilled nursing care. But what about your adult child’s home? It is not uncommon for a parent to help an adult child by giving them
The Mulders Receive the Good Shepherd Award from Resthaven
Recently Andy Mulder and his wife, Lois, have been selected by Resthaven’s Board of Directors as the recipients of 2018 Good Shepherd Award. Attached, you can find the lovely article from Resthaven’s newsletter detailing the extent of the Mulder’s service. The Holland community has been blessed with the service and leadership of Andy and Lois
What Will a Terror Clause Do for Your Trust?
Terror is not a word regularly associated with a trust but there are times when the two terms meet. A “terror clause,” “in terrorem clause,” or “no-contest clause” can be used in both wills and trusts to warn someone to think twice about contesting the terms of a will or trust. The clause usually states
A Few Unique Powers of Attorney That You Might Want To Consider
Over the last few years, if you have read any articles in this space about estate planning or have taken the steps to create your own estate plan, then you are probably aware of the importance of having a general durable power of attorney and a healthcare power of attorney in place. These are the
- Jessica Arends
- Carole D. Bos
- Derek W. Dalman
- Jennifer DeYoung
- Nicholas R. Dekker
- Vincent L. Duckworth
- John Fitzpatrick
- Bradley Glazier
- Lindsey J. Gorsline
- Jeffrey K. Helder
- Rachel L. Hillegonds
- Thomas J. Hillegonds
- Robert Howard
- Gregory J. McCoy
- Andrew J. Mulder
- P. Haans Mulder
- Randall S. Schipper
- Carl Thorwall
- Ronald J. Vander Veen
- Susan E. Vroegop
- Of Counsel
- Ronald L. Dalman
- James A. Bidol
- David M. Zessin
- Joel G. Bouwens
- Agricultural Law
- Banking & Commercial Transactions
- Bankruptcy Law - Corporate
- Bankruptcy Law - Personal
- Business & Corporate Law
- Construction Law
- Criminal Law
- Elder Law / Medicaid Planning
- Employment Law for Employees
- Employment Law for Employers
- Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts
- Family Law & Divorce
- Litigation
- Municipal & Administrative Law
- Personal Injury / Insurance Defense
- Probate Law
- Real Estate & Environmental Law
- Tax Law