by Janis Harlow | Jan 28, 2025 | Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Online Safety in the Data Breach Era Steps you can take to improve your online safety Why is this SO important? Cybercrime is expected to cost over $10 Trillion in 2025. 2.7 billion records were hacked in the National Public Data (NPD) breach last year, exposing...
by Janis Harlow | May 3, 2024 | Caregivers, Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Legally establishing a trust does not put money into it. Perhaps you or your parent(s) visited an attorney at some point and had a trust document drafted. There are many kinds of trusts, but most are created to hold accounts or other items of value (assets) that...
by Janis Harlow | Apr 5, 2024 | Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Check Writing Has Some Pitfalls It used to be that check-writing was a way of life. It was the only way to pay bills or send money to a grandchild for their birthday. In 2022, FinCen, a unit of the US Treasury Department, reported a whopping 84% increase in check...
by Janis Harlow | Apr 3, 2023 | Busy Professionals, Caregivers, Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Advanced Planning 101 Avoiding mistakes that can derail your efforts Broadly speaking, there are several stages to managing your estate. Much of it has to do with paper and, increasingly, digital documents. To have an estate plan, it must get written down. It...
by Janis Harlow | Feb 20, 2023 | Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Tax Organization for NEXT Year Avoid the Stress you are feeling right now This time of the year, accountants everywhere are advising that you need to have your documents to them by March 1st. Are you feeling stressed? The alternative is filing an extension,...
by Janis Harlow | Mar 21, 2022 | Seniors, Tigress Tales Blog
Remember When Things Were Simple? Life doesn’t need to be so challenging It wasn’t that long ago that you could change the oil in your own car; you could change the channel on TV without needing a doctorate to figure out how to use the remote! And what about...
