Roots & Rights: Securing Tomorrow

This episode breaks down why putting a child on your home’s deed can trigger avoidable capital-gains, gift-tax, and liability problems. It also covers safer options like transfer-on-death deeds and revocable living trusts that can bypass probate without putting your family at risk.

Learn how a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust can help protect a family home from long-term care costs, and why the five-year lookback makes early planning essential. The episode also covers the tradeoffs of irrevocable trusts, keeping the right to live in the home, and preserving tax benefits for heirs.

Learn how a revocable living trust can keep a family home out of probate, protect privacy, and make inheritance smoother for your loved ones. The episode also breaks down the difference between revocable and irrevocable trusts, the importance of properly funding a trust, and why choosing the right trustee matters.

This episode explains why waiting until a medical emergency can leave families powerless, locked out of accounts, and forced into costly probate or conservatorship battles. It also lays out how to start the kitchen table conversation and use tools like durable powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and trusts to preserve control and dignity.

Attorney Gregory Robinson explains how Medicaid estate recovery can put family homes at risk and why long-term care planning matters for aging Black families. He outlines proactive strategies like irrevocable trusts, life estate deeds, and durable powers of attorney to help preserve generational wealth.

Attorney Gregory Robinson explores how Juneteenth connects to the fight for economic freedom, revealing the steep decline in Black land ownership and the hidden risks of heirs’ property. He explains why wills, trusts, and family LLCs are essential tools for protecting generational wealth and preserving family legacy.

Attorney Gregory Robinson explains how Medicaid estate recovery and the five-year lookback rule can turn a family home into a target for state recovery after long-term care. He also breaks down proactive planning tools like Medicaid asset protection trusts and life estates, with a focus on preserving generational wealth.

Attorney Gregory Robinson explains how dying without a will can trigger intestacy, probate delays, and costly partition sales that can fracture families and erase generational wealth. He also shares practical steps for protecting your legacy with a will, trust, and updated beneficiary designations.

Attorney Gregory Robinson breaks down how the estates of Aretha Franklin, Prince, and Chadwick Boseman became cautionary tales about probate, public family conflict, and costly legal delays. He explains why simple estate planning tools like wills, trusts, and beneficiary designations are acts of love that protect family, wealth, and community legacy.

Attorney Gregory Robinson explores the "tangled title" crisis and how dying without a will leaves family homes vulnerable to predatory investors and tax foreclosures. Learn how strategic estate planning can secure your intergenerational wealth and protect your family's legacy.