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Q. We have been part of the fortunate few who have received mineral income. We had set things up in an Limited Liability Partnership. In the partnership, we still own fifty-one percent interest and we gave the remainder interest...

Q:  “We recently applied for life insurance with an insurance carrier and were told that our rating would be much higher than what we thought…   “We know the insurance is an important part of our estate...

Q: We heard a lot about health care reform a few years back but we haven’t heard anything recently. Are we still going to go a national health care program or is this whole movement been stymied by the recent political...

Q: We’ve read in your past columns about how you use a ‘life estate’ rather than a trust for owning property and possibly protecting it from Medicaid under the five year look-back rule. We have a slightly...

Dear Just Got Finished: Currently, I am sitting at my booth in at the Big Iron Show in Fargo for my eighteenth or nineteenth year. As usual, I’m watching all the passer-byes go by – some looking at me, some avoiding...