If you are on your death bed, you might be wishing you’d planned better to protect your spouse, kids, grandkids, others in need. You might yearn for one last hug, telling them how much you love them, how they make you proud. But there’s no time for that! Instead, you want to call me, Dave Duringer. We can use your last moments on earth to write a hundred-page love letter doing all of that, and more!

Everybody has a PLAN until they get punched in the mouth (POW). Education forces experimental injections on your kids, robs them of values and maybe a few body parts, and when you speak out, you get banned from social media, or investigated by the FBI. Time to punch back with homeschooling and private training under a FIRST Family Trust.

Let’s say you set up a comprehensive estate plan to protect your family. Great. Will that trust give you peace of mind forever? So many things can change…the Law can change, your Family can change, your Assets can change. Our trusts include our Client Maintenance Plan FREE if you pass our handgun skills test. Check out our free training at GUNTRUST.ORG and take the test!

Some advisors send their clients to low-cost trust mills, trying to save them money. Trouble is, cookie cutter trusts do not protect families, and that is the whole point of estate planning. If you are an advisor who cares about your clients, drag them to the free training I offer at GUNTRUST.ORG—you will have a blast discussing comprehensive planning and perfecting handgun drills under time pressure.

Bespoke (or custom) gun trust planning is important in EVERY state because it is the ONLY effective way to transmit a legacy of firearm training, and that’s the only way to preserve gun culture and our right to bear arms. But in California, special gun trust planning may be necessary even to avoid probate! So EVERY trust I draft for a California gun owner is a purpose-built gun trust.

Dementia doesn’t happen all at once. It waxes and wanes but gets worse over time. One day you win the presidency with a record number of votes, and the next you are shaking hands with an invisible person or being guided around by the Easter Bunny. Good days and, bad days. Make sure you visit your estate planning attorney on a good day; otherwise, life can get very complicated for your children.

When it comes to estate planning, some like it simple. Low-price trust hawkers like simple because all they can do is simple. Customers like simple because they’re told they can save money by avoiding expensive lawyers. After they die, they find out that simple failed to protect their family. And that was the whole point of having an estate plan! Simple can get very complicated.

If you are having a trust drafted, be sure to get a second opinion. Take advantage of my free initial design meeting. There are many options out there, from many sources, at many price points, sometimes even free of charge. Why are these trusts priced so low? Because you won’t know whether the trust works until after you die. And that’s a little too late.

For most families, Prop 19 means you can no longer pass real estate to kids without reassessment, raising property taxes higher than the kids can afford. Prop 13 trusts avoided Prop 19, but that loophole closed several years ago. Some families may still avoid reassessment with advanced LLC planning, and every family must know how to step carefully through the Prop 19 minefield.

If you own a farm or ranch, you may want to keep it in the family forever. You’ll want to treat non-farming family members fairly, but maybe not equally. You’ll want to keep the court system away, have separate operating and land-owning entities, and avoid disqualification from any federal farm subsidies. And you’ll definitely want to avoid any estate tax which could force sale of the farm.