213: Choice in Aging: How Medi-Cal Programs Help Seniors Age in Place
What if staying home as you age cost a fraction of what a nursing facility does? In California, a shared room in a skilled nursing facility...
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Educating at every step. Absolute Trust Talk is not your run of the mill general counsel show filled with legal jargon that doesn’t resonate. Through her 20+ years of practice, Absolute Trus...
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20 of 109 episodes212: Childfree Wealth, Part 2: Pet Trusts, POAs, and Who Decides When You Can't?
Most estate planning conversations start with who gets what. For childfree adults, a harder question comes first: who makes decisions for yo...
211: Childfree Wealth: Who's Your Long-Term Care Plan If You Don't Have Kids?211:
Most people already have a long-term care plan. Yet they have never written it down, never funded it, and in many cases never said it out lo...
210: Aging in Place, Part 2: How JoeyCo Home Sharing Actually Works
Once a student is living in your spare room and working for your household, the questions get practical fast. Can they have a friend over? W...
209: Aging in Place: How JoeyCo Matches Older Adults with Student Housemates
What if the answer to aging well at home isn't an expensive caregiver --- but a college student in the spare bedroom? In this episode, host...
208: Downsizing on Your Terms, Part 2: Buy First, Sell Later
In Part 1, host Kirsten Howe and real estate agent Nathan Jines of Jines Real Estate Group talked about why more people 55 and up are choosi...
207: Downsizing on Your Terms: Moving After 55
When most of us picture an older adult moving out of a long-time home, we imagine a crisis — declining health, a loss of independence, a mov...
206: Estate Planning Misses: The Mess You Leave Behind
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, managing attorney Kirsten Howe shares an estate planning miss that has nothing to do with your docum...
205: Estate Planning Misses: How to Document a Loan or Gift to Your Child
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, managing attorney Kirsten Howe tackles a quietly common source of family conflict: parents giving mo...
204: Estate Planning Misses: Addressing Separate Property in a Joint Trust
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, managing attorney Kirsten Howe tackles one of the most common — and commonly overlooked — estate pla...
203: Estate Planning Misses: How to Make Cash Available Immediately After Death
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, managing attorney Kirsten Howe tackles one of the most overlooked practical challenges in estate pla...
202: Estate Planning Misses: The Timeshare Problem No One Talks About
That timeshare you've been putting off dealing with? It could become a probate headache for your family. In this episode of Absolute Trust T...
201: Estate Planning Misses: What Happens When Your Custodial or 529 Account Has No Successor
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, managing attorney Kirsten Howe continues her estate planning misses mini-series by tackling custodia...
200: Why Your Health Savings Account Needs a Beneficiary
We've reached a huge milestone here at Absolute Trust Counsel—drum roll, please—the launch of our 200th Absolute Trust Talk episode! What st...
199: Your Power of Attorney Is Valid—So Why Won't Anyone Accept It?
A new client recently asked Kirsten a question that resonated: "What can we do so we don't face the same pushback I did when my mom's bank w...
198: California's Medi-Cal Asset Limit Returns in 2026—Are You Prepared?
Federal Medicaid cuts have dominated the news cycle, but there's a California-specific change that's barely getting attention—and it could b...
197: O.J. Simpson's $58 Million Problem: What His Probate Teaches Us
In this episode of Absolute Trust Talk, Kirsten Howe returns with the latest development in the ongoing O.J. Simpson probate saga. Over 18 m...
196: Bitcoin Demystified (Part 3): Currency, Sustainability, and Social Impact
Can Bitcoin actually function as real money—and is it destroying the planet? In Part 3 of our cryptocurrency series, host Kirsten Howe conti...
195: Bitcoin Demystified (Part 2): The 3 Ways to Own Bitcoin
Ready to own Bitcoin but not sure where to start? In Part 2 of our cryptocurrency series, host Kirsten Howe continues her conversation with...
194: Bitcoin Demystified (Part 1): Why 1 in 7 Americans Own Bitcoin
Did you know that 1 in 7 Americans now own Bitcoin? If you've been curious about cryptocurrency but don't know where to start, this episode...