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When a Child Is Removed from the Parents’ Home

Kinship care options and advice for grandparents of kids in the child-welfare system

By Cathleen J. Newbanks

 

The Fostering Connections Act (2009) mandates that child-welfare workers locate and contact relatives within 30 days of a child being removed from the custody of their parent(s). Research has shown that children removed from their [...]

The Time is Now for Your Income Plan

By Dennis Miller

I have a friend who says, “Why make a decision today if it can be put off until tomorrow?”

While that might sound cute, waiting until the transmission on your car is totally broken and having the vehicle towed to a dealer for a trade-in certainly isn’t the optimal way to negotiate [...]

If You Suspect Your Grandchild (or Any Child) is Being Abused

Our friend, Mike Tikkanen, founder of Kids At Risk Action (KARA) has a powerful new video available that you can access here: http://www.invisiblechildren.org/2013/01/17/watch-this/

The toll of childhood trauma on society is incalculable.

Kids At Risk Action (KARA) Kids At Risk Action (KARA) is a non-profit advocacy network focusing on issues related to neglected and [...]

Grandparents, You Can Captain Your Own Retirement Ship

By Dennis Miller When Kerry Lutz turned off the recorder after interviewing me for the Financial Survival Network a few weeks ago, we started talking about a common challenge we both face: getting an entire generation to wake up and see that we have a real problem. Most seniors and savers readily admit that [...]

When to Pay Off Your Mortgage

By Dennis Miller

My good friend Rob recently paraphrased Warren Buffett as saying, “If he knew where he was going to live for the next decade, he’d buy a house with a long-term mortgage.” Buffett thought a mortgage was a good hedge against inflation, because the homeowner would pay off the mortgage with cheaper dollars [...]

Keeping Your Parents From Dying Twice

By Dennis Miller

In 2000, my high school hosted a class reunion for all of its twentieth-century graduating classes. It was actually attended by some folks who graduated in the late 1920s; everyone from my graduating class of 1958 was about 60 years old at the time of the reunion.

As we sat around [...]

Attention: Grandparents With Grandkids Born Outside the USA

The Best Gift for a Lifetime is the protections of the USA’s Constitution!

By Varvara M. Gokea, Esq.

A little-known section of the Immigration and Naturalization Act allows US grandparents to step in and assist their minor born overseas grandchildren to obtain the USA citizenship.

A growing number of [...]