by Hartmann Law | Feb 20, 2025 | Estate Planning
As a business owner, you have a lot to manage, and estate planning may often slip your mind without ever being initiated. However, to secure your business and ensure it will thrive after you are gone, you must begin estate planning. Estate planning is critical...
by Hartmann Law | Jan 6, 2025 | Estate Planning
Creating an estate plan is on everyone’s to-do list, but it can somehow get pushed lower and lower down until it’s inevitably forgotten about. However, an estate plan is essential for all of us to have and keep updated throughout our lives, and an estate planner can...
by Hartmann Law | Dec 18, 2024 | Business Law
Public and private businesses view their stocks in very different lights. While public firms might sell their company stock at the current market price at any time, private firms will keep stocks within their group of shareholders. With that said, if one of the...
by Hartmann Law | Nov 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Succession planning is a valuable tool for both small and large businesses. Small businesses can utilize succession planning to better manage changes in leadership and ownership, while large businesses can avoid any talent gaps. A succession plan can keep your...
by Hartmann Law | Sep 25, 2024 | Business Law
Starting a business is an exciting time in anyone’s life, but it comes with a long list of legalities that you must abide by in order to run your business properly. One of those legalities is an EIN. When you are in the process of starting your business, you...
by Hartmann Law | Aug 19, 2024 | Estate Planning
When you start estate planning, you are going to see that so many of your accounts require a beneficiary written into them. Bank accounts, retirement plans, insurance policies, and other stipulations within your last will all require you to write in a beneficiary....
by Hartmann Law | Jul 18, 2024 | Legal Tips
Your assets are everything to you. Your house, vehicles, business, bank account, jewelry, and anything meaningful to you is considered an asset. As you start your estate planning journey, your assets are your number one priority, ensuring they go to the right people...
by Hartmann Law | Jun 20, 2024 | Estate Planning
An “I love you” will might sound sweet and like the perfect option when you are in a thriving marriage with your spouse, but estate planning takes more than just love to create something that will stand the test of time. If you are estate planning with your spouse,...
by Hartmann Law | May 20, 2024 | Estate Planning
For many of us, pets are just as much a part of the family as our children, so when we start the estate planning process, it makes sense that they will be included in some capacity. When we pass, we want to make sure that our pets will be well taken care of, and...
by Hartmann Law | Apr 19, 2024 | Estate Planning
Divorce has many moving parts, and now there is another one to consider – your estate plan. You and your spouse likely created much of your estate plan together and are intermingled in most of it. In addition to everything else that comes with divorce, you will need...
