Ask Shade About Trusts: Is It Right to Name My Son as My Beneficiary and not My Wife?
A trust is an arrangement in which an individual’s assets are transferred to a trustee to hold for the benefit of named beneficiaries. With a trust, you can not only ensure that your wealth is preserved for your son, you can even pass this wealth down through generations. Hello Shade, Is it wrong to name my son […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: How Do I Plan For My Unborn Children?
Hello Shade, I read your previous article in response to a lady’s question regarding her intended husband’s will. I found it admirable that her intended husband had gotten a will so early in his life. I trust God for protection and long life, but I have started considering getting a will too. Especially because of […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: My Uncle Is Wrongfully Occupying the Land Our Grandfather Left Us
Hello Shade, Please help me. My grandfather left my brother and I property in our home town. Although we were young when his Will was read, my grandmother lived much longer, and she took us to see the property. Now that we are old enough to use the property, we discovered one of my uncles […]
Ask Shade about Trusts: My Parents Left Me Too Much to Handle
Hello Shade, My parents left me a huge inheritance when they passed away last year. I am just 22 and I don’t think I have enough experience and know-how to manage that kind of money yet. I want to take a few years to further my education and pursue my passion. How can I secure […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: Our Son Doesn’t Want to Continue the Family Business
Hello Shade, I need your help. My wife and I have worked hard building our business with hopes that our son would one day join the business and eventually own it when we are retired. We sent him to a business school abroad only for him to return with a photography degree. He is our […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: He Doesn’t Know It’s Not ‘Our’ House
I have a house, me and my husband are living in currently. It was given to me by my father and I managed to convince my husband that we should live here in town rather than a far place from both our work. I lied to my husband that it was a gift from my […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: Does My Husband Have to Know?
Hi Shade, My name is Gloria, I got married 5 years ago at 35. Before the wedding, I already built a house at Mowe, a block of 6 flats, and I have other undeveloped property that I didn’t tell my husband about (so as not to intimidate or repel him). My plan is to gift […]
Ask Shade About Trusts: My Mum Just Found Love Again! But How Do I Protect My Future?
By setting up a trust, your mother can ensure that the fashion line is passed on to you at her death, even though she retains full control while she is alive. She can name beneficiaries of the trust and include her new spouse so as to achieve some balance. Hello Shade, For five years […]
Ask Shade: He Left Everything to His children From a Previous Marriage! How Do I Secure My Child’s Future?
Dear Shade, I’m in my early 30s engaged to a widower in his 50s. We plan to get married in a few months and I‘m already pregnant. While cleaning his study last week, I stumbled on something that looks like his Will and it seems like he already willed everything to the three children from […]
Ask Shade: My Daughter’s Husband is a Freeloader! How Do I Protect Her Inheritance?
Hello Shade, I am a single mother who has had to work really hard to give my only daughter a good life. Thankfully, God blessed the work of my hands and my food processing company now has branches all over the country. Lately, I have been thinking about planning my estate and writing a Will […]
