Darcy K. Houghton, Wealth and estate planning, business law, probate

09/11/2024

Several friends have posted that the U.S. Weather Service has issued a PDS RFW for tomorrow (Particularly Dangerous Situation- Red Flag Warning) These are particularly dangerous and are rarely issued - please pay attention. Some of you may have received notices about “de-energization” of utilities. Please be diligent and prepared. In the meantime, I am praying that this becomes a non-event!

01/25/2023

I love this. I feel this is what I do in a big corporation too!

06/09/2021

10/26/2019

Someone recently came up with the idea to build playgrounds for the elderly and this is just such a wonderful idea! It’s normal that as you grow older, you grow a lot more sedentary and especially a lot more lonely. For years, playgrounds have been primarily for children and teens to enjoy for dai...

07/25/2019

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 VOLUME 19 NUMBER 34 I’m thinking about setting up a special needs trust for my son, who has a developmental disability. Will it mean a lot more work for my daughter, who will be handling the estate? It’s a fair question, and one we hear a lot. No one ever asks: “could…

06/26/2019

The Supreme Court issued a decision in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust—and it’s unanimous. The Court ruled that a trust beneficiary’s residence is not sufficient on its own for a state to tax a trust’s undistributed income.

01/17/2019

I still need to figure out how the Bank of North America is part of Wells Fargo .... more to come...

America’s Founding Fathers established the Bank of North America on Jan. 7, 1782, helping to fund a war and save a fledgling economy.