Indiana Injury And Family Lawyer Blog

When an adult can no longer make decisions, whether from a stroke, advancing dementia, a serious accident, or another loss of capacity, someone still has to pay the bills, manage the property, and make medical choices. If that person planned ahead, a trusted agent steps in quietly. If they did not, the alternative is guardianship: a court proceeding in which a judge decides w...

For several years, families who inherited an IRA or a 401(k) got a reprieve from a confusing distribution rule while the IRS worked out the details. That reprieve has ended. Starting with the 2025 tax year, the inherited IRA 10-year rule is being enforced as written, and the penalty relief that applied from 2021 through 2024 no longer does. For a great many Indiana families, ...

Most people now keep a meaningful part of their lives online: email, photographs, bank and brokerage logins, social media, cloud storage, and increasingly digital currency. Far fewer have thought about what happens to those accounts if they die or lose the ability to manage their own affairs. Indiana answers that question through a statute on access to digital assets, the Rev...

A federal tax law signed in the summer of 2025 changed the numbers that drive estate tax planning, and the headlines that followed left many Indiana families wondering whether their own plans need attention. The short answer for most Hoosier households is reassuring, though it carries a caution worth understanding. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act set the federal estate tax exe...