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Staying safe this July 4th Holiday Weekend
Families and friends throughout Wisconsin are planning outdoor activities this 4th of July to enjoy summer to its fullest. Keeping those celebrations fun means thinking ahead about a few ways to ensure everyone stays safe. After winter, a cold spring, and years of various Covid-19 restrictions, we’re all ready to jump into summer with both…
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Merry Christmas from all of us at Rebecca Mason Law
Rebecca Mason and the team at Rebecca Mason Law would like to wish our colleagues, clients, and community a happy, relaxing, safe Christmas! Hopefully, everyone is surrounded by family and friends (perhaps over zoom) and has a wonderful day. Thank you for living the spirit of Christmas all through the year by sharing your gifts…
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Be Thankful for the Elders in our Lives
As the pandemic disproportionately affected our elders, this Thanksgiving, let’s take a moment to be thankful for all the elderly persons in our lives. Depending on what stage of life you are in this could include great grandparents, grandparents, parents, other loved ones, and our neighbors. If the politics get too rough at the family…
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A Safe and Happy Halloween 2021!
With Halloween-related activities occurring mostly at night, combined with the visually obstructive nature of many costumes, it is no surprise that pedestrian accidents increase dramatically during the spookiest of holidays. As our children and teens take to the streets to visit haunted houses, attend gatherings, or to go trick-or-treating, it is important for parents to…
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Memorial Day began as Decoration Day
Some of our readers have never heard of Decoration Day. What we now call Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day. In the mid-late 1800s families visited local cemeteries or traveled out of town to military cemeteries. They visited to decorate the graves of loved ones who died during military service and remember. The Library of Congress reports that…
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Planning To Ensure Your Independence this 4th of July
Jul 4, 2020 | Estate Planning, Rebecca Mason Law Blog For the first time in 15yrs, we are not celebrating our independence by walking in the Racine 4th of July parade. We are all sad about this and it underscores the uncertainty of 2020. As we consider Independence Day 2020, a lesson we can learn from this…
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Coronavirus Covid-19 Outbreak
As the Coronavirus has progressed, there has been an increase in the number of people contacting our office to ensure their affairs are in order. All the media attention seems to have put estate planning back on the top of their to-do lists. There is no way to know how the coronavirus will impact us…
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