Choosing a Fiduciary

We live in a time when advances in medical care have greatly enhanced the life expectancy of the average American.  As more and more of us live into our eighties and beyond, the likelihood that we will need the assistance of someone to help us with our healthcare and financial decisions increases dramatically.  Too often…

Update on Estate Taxes

On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed “The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act which significantly altered the rules concerning federal estate taxes, gift taxes and generation-skipping transfer taxes for the 2010 through 2012 tax years.  Once again the polarized Congress was incapable of reaching a bipartisan long term solution and instead…

Staying Safe During the Holidays

Do you have any idea what the number 10,839 represents? It is the number of people killed by an impaired driver in the United States last year.  In Arizona (AZ) alone, there were over 14,000 arrests made in 2009 for those driving while under-the-influence; and 4,500 of these came between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. …

Do I Need a Trust?

Many people contact our law firm to ask our opinion as to whether they need to have a Trust? They may have friends or family members that have established a Trust or they may have received an advertisement from a financial planner or attorney warning them that if they do not establish a Trust they…

Divorce

Families are facing so many challenges at this time with the loss of jobs and, consequently, properties that marriages are suffering as a direct result of these situations. Many couples need answers about family law concerning divorce and child custody and child support laws. The Carroll Law Firm is dedicated to providing families with excellent…

A House is Not a Home

This summer, “The Great Recession” achieved another sobering record when the number of initial home foreclosure notices pumped out by those bank “robo-signers” hit the one million mark, and that was for this summer alone! Millions have already lost their homes and in Arizona one out of 55 homes have received foreclosure notices, with the…