Lawyer Monthly Magazine - October 2019 Edition

Financial Law Key Financial Legal Issues Women Need to Know I have been practicing Bankruptcy, Debt/Wealth Management, Wills, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate and Taxation Law for many years now, representing both men and women, and while I have not seen it all, I have seen quite a bit; and some of what I have seen with regards the disparate treatment of men and women dealing with their financial legal issues, has not been very pretty. “ As such, an owner should choose her structure carefully. Even though an owner may convert to a different business structure in the future, there may be restrictions based on the location of the business. ” As the result of my personal observations and my own personal experiences about how some never married and/ or unmarried women and/ or widows are treated by their former spouses, lovers, or partners, their financial institutions, their fiduciaries, fraudsters, and/or some of the men who make financial decisions about them - including their employers, both inside and outside the courts -, I have come to a place where in the next iteration of my legal work, I want to create a resource for women in my next venture, which will in essence be: ‘Selwyn’s Law Digital Platform’ including related material and a book that I am writing on the above subject, Ask Selwyn Whitehead, Esquire: What You Need to Know About Financial and Legal Issues as a Woman-Headed Household! Just like the ongoing effects of climate change is finally coming into stark relief and getting right up into the faces of many who have ignored the obvious for years, many Please visit www.lawyer-monthly.com to view all footnotes referenced throughout this article. in our society are also just waking up to the fact that the American familial culture is in the midst of a paradigm shift. The heretofore-historic breadwinner-homemaker emotional, physical and financial partnership relationship between men and women has and continues to undergo substantial change; necessitating that women understand that there is a new financial and legal reality that women of all stripes in the world, especially women in the West and American women in particular and even more so for American women of color, must come to understand and deal with each and every day. For example, statistics reveal the following facts: 1. Many younger women (Millennials ages 21-36 and later) are remaining single longer and some will in fact never marry by choice ; 2. Most older women (Baby Boomers ages 53-71 and Gen Xers ages 37-52) are ending up single in their middle age either CONTACT LAW OFFICES OF SELWYN D. WHITEHEAD 4650 Scotia Avenue, Oakland, California 94605 Phone: 510.632.7444 | Fax: 510.856.5180 Email: selwynwhitehead@yahoo.com Website: www.selwynwhitehead.com First Choice Lawyers By Selwyn D. Whitehead, Esq., Law Offices Of Selwyn D. Whitehead 68 WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM | OCT 2019