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Can You Change Your Will During a Divorce?

Divorce is one of the most challenging and emotional experiences a person can face. While facing psychological turmoil and countless decisions that must be made, it’s easy to overlook certain aspects of your life that may need attention, like your… Read More

How to Cope With Caregiver Burnout in Ohio

Being a caregiver for an elderly relative is an honorable and rewarding job, but it can also be incredibly taxing. The tremendous responsibilities and emotional strain can lead to caregiver burnout, which takes a toll on your health and your ability… Read More

Jeff Griffith Named Partner at Dayton Estate Planning

Gudorf Law Group LLC a Dayton-based practice focusing on estate planning estate administration and elder law announced it has recently named Jeffrey A. Griffith as partner with long time Dayton attorney Ted Gudorf. “I’m grateful for the contribut… Read More

What is Tax-Loss Harvesting?

Investing in stocks can yield great growth—but the flip side of that is that investing also involves risks. Some investments are winners, and others that looked promising initially fizzle disappointingly. But even those stocks that turn out to be d… Read More

Surviving Spouse Rights in Ohio

Few life transitions are more difficult than the loss of a beloved spouse. While they are grieving a life partner, a widow or widower also has to deal with their loved one’s estate, including figuring out what their own rights are to the estate. Wh… Read More

Navigating Estate Planning for Multigenerational Families

If you have created an estate plan to protect your spouse and children in the event of your death, you are already ahead of most people—the majority of American adults don’t have an estate plan. But if you have accumulated some wealth, or built o… Read More

Avoiding Estate Planning Scams

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: every adult needs an estate plan. But about two-thirds of Ohio adults don’t have a will or any other estate planning documents. Maybe they were busy and kept putting it off. Maybe they didn… Read More

Who Has the Right to Plan Funeral Services in Ohio?

If you have ever had to plan funeral services for a loved one, you know that there are a lot of decisions to be made. Cremation or burial? Traditional funeral service, or celebration of life? Who will be invited to attend? Where will the final restin… Read More

The Elder Care Program at Gudorf Law Group

Watching parents and other loved ones grow older and more frail can make you feel helpless. You want to protect them and care for them. You want to preserve their dignity. And you may worry about their finances and whether they will have the resource… Read More

Saving the Family Farm from the Nursing Home

The annual cost of nursing home care in Ohio can be more than $100,000, and is likely to increase with every passing year. That’s an unbearable financial burden for most families, including families that farm. When the expense of nursing home care… Read More