by hirst | Feb 16, 2018 | Estate Planning, Featured, Legal Updates
As you recall, charitable trusts allow a donor to set aside assets for one or more charities. Two different types of charitable “split interest” or “mixed” trusts exist: (1) charitable remainder trusts (“CRTs”); and (2) charitable lead trusts (“CLTs”). We reviewed the...
by hirst | Feb 13, 2018 | Estate Planning, Featured
A charitable trust allows a donor to set aside assets for one or more charities. Two different types of charitable “split interest” or “mixed” trusts exist: (1) charitable remainder trusts (“CRTs”); and (2) charitable lead trusts (“CLTs”). The discussion that follows...
by hirst | Jan 31, 2018 | Estate Planning, Featured, Legal Updates
No one likes to envision the scenario in which they have children and then do not have the joy, pride, and pleasure of raising them. No one cares for your own children like you do. Planning and preparing, for what is hopefully a very remote and unlikely event, helps...
by hirst | Jan 15, 2018 | Estate Planning, Featured, Legal Updates
The answer to the question of whether you have an estate plan may not be that easy. Approximately 65% of the United States’ population has not sat down with their estate planning attorney, financial advisor, and/or accountant to discuss implementing an estate plan....
by hirst | Jan 9, 2018 | Estate Planning, Legal Updates
On July 1, 2017, Wyoming adopted significant changes to the Wyoming Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA). The UTMA was enacted in 1987 as a replacement of Wyoming’s previously adopted Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, and remained virtually untouched prior to the...
by Kris Knoernschild | Aug 23, 2016 | Complex Civil Litigation, Corporate and Business Law, Employment Law, Estate Planning, Featured, Legal Updates, Medical Malpractice, Products Liability, Professional Liability
Hirst Applegate, LLP is proud to announce our ranking as a Tier 1 law firm in Cheyenne in the practices areas of Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Personal Injury Litigation (Defendants), Product...