by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 23, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Dying Embarrassed, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Health Planning, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Income Tax, Life, Limitation of Liability, Operation & Governance, Pet Protection, Property Tax, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith, Retirement Planning, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Do Your Parents Have an Estate Plan? If you are part of the sandwich generation—caring for both your children and your parents at the same time—it is crucial that you know whether or not your parents have an existing estate plan. While the final decisions within their...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 23, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Creditors & Predators, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Your Cyber Legacy: 3 Tips for Your Digital Assets Digital assets are a category of commonly overlooked assets that play a crucial role in your estate plan and the legacy you leave behind at your death. It is all right if you did not consider these items when you first...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 22, 2025 | Blog, Horror Stories, News & Commentary, WorldExaminer.com
While America’s Woke Left threatens America’s economy, America’s Woke Right threatens America’s military and strategic alliances. Both are susceptible to brainwashing due to their ignorance. There is more hope for the Woke Right as their...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Horror Stories, Life, News & Commentary
Illegal aliens often have greater gun rights than US citizens, thanks to laws giving greater gun rights to cops, who are often illegals. These illegal cops can have guns you cannot have, and they can carry guns in places where you cannot be armed. Most people are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 13, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Horror Stories, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Jimmy Buffett’s estate has been buffeted by apparent mutual mistrust between cotrustees he designated for the marital trust he left behind for the sole benefit of his wife, Jane. As is common, he designated his wife as trustee. However, as he apparently did not...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Gift Tax, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
Distribution of stock from Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) is merely a change in beneficial ownership, not insider trading so no disgorgement of profits required. So says a district court in Tennessee, ruling on a summary judgment motion. Nosirrah Management,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, GST Tax, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
PLR 202528006 rules GST tax exempt status remains intact after merger of two trusts with identical terms and same beneficiaries: Husband’s Exempt Trust and Wife’s Exempt Trust have the same beneficiaries, and theTrusts’ dispositive, administrative, and termination...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, News & Commentary, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
We now have clarity in estate tax, which general partners of private equity and venture capital funds might well avoid by transferring a type of asset known as “carried interest” before appreciation carries their estates north of their applicable...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
FBI 2024 data shows that violent crime is way down after 2022 Bruen decision restoring right to bear arms, despite predictions of mayhem. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, possibly millions, are carrying today that were not doing so in 2022. Yet no blood in the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
By my count, after the recent decision of a Florida appellate court striking down that state’s ban on open carry (a decision Florida’s Attorney General says is binding statewide), there remain only five states that generally prohibit open carry of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 11, 2025 | Blog, Bloodline Protection, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Sydney Sweeney is the new face of gun training culture. Awesome job, whoever trained her. Hope she attends our clinic. We’re all about genes and dynastic firearm training, often in...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 11, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Creditors & Predators, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Honor, Horror Stories, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Disinheritance always adds to the risk of internecine litigation between family members. This case is an extreme example of what can go wrong. Disinherited heir seeks revenge, and possibly a very large reward as a whistleblower, for exposing an apparent scheme of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 11, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Fortune, Horror Stories, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
The US Tax Court in Estate of Billy S. Rowland v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2025-76 (U.S.T.C. July 15, 2025), link here, denied portability election due to incomplete estate tax return (Form 706). Though a return was otherwise timely filed under the relaxed deadline...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 9, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Horror Stories, Life
I have no professional training in the security field and no law enforcement or military experience, but my decades of experience as a practitioner and instructor of concealed carry tells me that security at a recent local political event was probably lacking in a few...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 2, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Due to the concerning recent increase in “assault tranny” mass shooters, our Attorney General Pam Bondi has apparently been considering some type of ban or restriction on gun rights enjoyed by “transgender” individuals. This is a horrible idea...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Horror Stories, Life, News & Commentary
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is so shocking, it is certainly a turning point for US culture and politics. The horror is captured in the graphic blood-spurting video at left, included here not for shock value but to honor the man. That’s not a gun in his...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 21, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Fortune, Honor, Horror Stories, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Democrat Senator (and former VP candidate) Tim Kaine shockingly rejected the self-evident Truth, stated in our Declaration of Independence, that our rights come from God rather than government. Is it not crystal clear that the Democrat Party is the party of godless...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 21, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Health Planning, Honor, Horror Stories, Incapacity Planning, Life, News & Commentary
Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.) pic.twitter.com/kC4VTRaobq— Yaroslav Trofimov...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 21, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Horror Stories, News & Commentary, Probate Admin, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Almost every estate planning client has family protection as a major if not primary legacy goal. The worst legacy you can leave is to leave your children fighting each other. Looks like that’s what Tony Bennett did, because he put his trust in one child to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 21, 2025 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
A hero armed with his self-defense handgun joined with several other bystanders to actively subdue the attacker in a mass stabbing at a Michigan Walmart. (I’m placing this one on my “mass shootings” list even though it’s a mass stabbing.) While...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 21, 2025 | Blog, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Assassination culture continues to spread after study shows 56% of Left (those who self-identify as being left-of-center) wants President Trump assassinated. Of course there is nothing new about this woke fascist terrorism, and it’s not even all that new on the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 19, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, News & Commentary, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
As i posted previously, the failure of Rupert Murdoch’s trust to include adequate trust protector provisions allowing, without court action, the shift of control to Lachlan Murdoch, resulted in Rupert’s unsuccessful Nevada suit to reform the trust, a...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Life, News & Commentary
Merry Constitution Day! Honoring our surest guarantee of Family Power. Here is text of the original US Constitution, without any amendments: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 15, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Fortune, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Life, Pet Protection, Religious Faith, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
A Family Mission Statement can play an important role in growing and maintaining Family Power in the near term and over several generations. Dynastic trust incentives can help transmit the necessary values for Life, Fortune, and Honor, to grow Family Power, but words...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, GunLaw.Pro, Life, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
Texas recently had a chance to live up to its undeserved reputation as a palladium of gun rights, and failed. Texas bill SB 82 was allowed to languish and die in committee. The text is very short and could have been improved, for example by narrowing “criminal...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 7, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Entity Formation, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Fortune, Honor, Life, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Venture Protection
Non-charitable purpose trusts are gaining attention as an alternative structure for business succession planning. Traditional estate planning will often give control to family members, or maybe some of them, in varying degrees, usually through some combination of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith
Just in time for Halloween, here is one of several videos left behind by the Satanic leftist assault tranny Minnesota Robin f/k/a Minneosta Robert who shot up a Catholic school this morning (or more precisely, a Catholic church connected with that school), killing...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Aug 14, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Estate Planning, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Life, News & Commentary, Religious Faith, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning
This post is a brief review of Mark Levin’s new book “On Power”, which i downloaded on Audible. In short, the book is mercifully short, but it’s also great, like all of Mark’s books. In fact, it might be the greatest. I say that because...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Health Planning, Incapacity Planning, Trust Admin
California Probate Code §15800(b) (set forth below) was amended several years ago to place extra notice burdens upon a successor trustee who takes over a revocable trust upon settlor incapacity, unless someone competent remains with a power to revoke the trust (other...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 4, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Protection, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Honor, Income Tax, Life, News & Commentary, Property Tax, Tax Planning
Happy No Kings Day! Happy Independence Day! Happy Fourth of July, America! Usually i try to get a newsletter emailed on or about the Fourth to celebrate and include some kind of wisdom from the Founders, which is pretty much what i do with all my newsletters, but that...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | May 5, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Career Maintenance, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Horror Stories, Incapacity Planning, Life, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Punishment, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith, Retirement Planning, Venture Protection, WorldExaminer.com
My recent post Victory for #2A in Duringer v Morro Bay gave little detail, but i can now report judgment was entered today in favor of Plaintiff David R. Duringer (that’s me!) jointly and severally against all three defendants: the City of Morro Bay; former...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Horror Stories, News & Commentary
US military vet hijacks Belize plane with knife, stabbing three including pilot, gets shot and killed by passenger carrying pistol. Story...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog, Charity, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Fortune, Honor, Horror Stories, Trust Admin
Here is yet another example of estate plan failure due to lack of family control. Public agencies and nonprofits usually cannot be trusted over the long term to faithfully fulfill testamentary intent. Did the San Luis Obispo City Council fail to honor the wishes of a ...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
I spoke yesterday on California Gun Trust Planning at the Atascadero Rotary Club and was asked whether a gun trust can help avoid application of California’s one gun a month law which prohibits purchase of more than one firearm over a thirty-day period (aka...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
Carry a firearm, not a Byrna! While it is definitely a good idea to carry a non-lethal alternative for self-defense, there are many such alternatives that are smaller and easier to carry than a Byrna. Very few people would carry both a firearm and a Byrna. If i have...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 8, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Creditors & Predators, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
A new study by Lott and Moody shows that armed citizens are much more effective than uniformed police at stopping potential mass shootings. The study concluded: The results favor intervention by armed citizens. Unlike uniformed police officers, armed citizens are...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
The video at top left is a brilliant “dissent video” by Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the Ninth Circuit, part of his recent dissent in Duncan v Bonta. (Video below that is my daughter Ayn, who is now finishing up her first year at University of Florida School...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Defensive Gun Use, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life
A recent study indicates that 31% of gun owners have used a gun defensively at least once over their lives. (I am in this category, and many of my students have confirmed their own defensive gun use (DGU) experiences.) Furthermore, the same study indicates 82% of...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Life, News & Commentary
I should probably have a “Dumb Criminals” category but as an estate planner i’ll stick with “Dying Embarrassed”. This man was convicted of attempted murder because, even though he pointed his semi-auto handgun at a Pismo Beach cop’s...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 1, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Income Tax, Life, Tax Planning, Trust Admin
The recent shooting of a healthcare CEO has promoted increasing discussion of new security protocols among ultra high net worth (UHNW) families and their businesses, involving perhaps purpose-built security trusts funded with business interests, provisions in family...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 1, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Planning, Fortune, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Pursuant to new interim final rule issued by FINCEN on March 21, 2025, US persons and entities are now exempt from Beneficial Ownership Interest (BOI) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act. Aside from being extremely burdensome and vague in some cases, the...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Apr 1, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Creditors & Predators, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Planning, Fortune
Will concealed carry insurance actually protect you and your family? There are concerns (for example, see thread here) where policies may not be delivering as expected. You have to read proposed policy language carefully to see what is covered and what is excluded....
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Mar 19, 2025 | Asset Protection, Blog, Career Maintenance, Creditors & Predators, Defensive Gun Use, Dying Embarrassed, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Horror Stories, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith, Venture Protection, WorldExaminer.com
Victory for the Second Amendment in Morro Bay today as Plaintiff David R Duringer files acceptance of Defendants’ FRCP Rule 68 Offer of Judgment in favor of Plaintiff in his federal case, Duringer v Morro Bay et al. More details to follow and an update will be...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life, News & Commentary, Punishment, Religious Faith
Attorney David R. Duringer has filed a 92-page federal complaint (Duringer v Morro Bay) in US District Court, Central District of California, against the City of Morro Bay and several other defendants, for violation of his civil rights under the US Constitution,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 28, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Creditors & Predators, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Probate Admin, Regulatory Compliance, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
The Fifth Circuit on December 26 vacated its December 23 stay of a Texas federal judge’s injunction against Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Although the merits panel still has the matter set for expedited appeal to the next available oral arguments panel,...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 24, 2024 | Blog, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
Earlier this month, a Texas federal judge issued a nationwide injunction against the heinous and unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which required burdensome reporting for many types of entities, even non-business entities created f0r family estate...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 23, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Creditors & Predators, Dying Embarrassed, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Planning Movies, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, Honor, Income Tax, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Religious Faith, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection
As my practice matures and I take on more high-net-worth clients, it’s amazing how poor the estate planning is among some of these families. Sometimes, there is no planning at all! In other cases, there is very simple cookie-cutter planning, which is always bad...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 4, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blended Families, Blog, Bloodline Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Career Maintenance, Career Preparation, Charity, Creditors & Predators, Defensive Gun Use, Entity Formation, Estate Admin, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Family Maintenance, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, Fortune, Gift Tax, GST Tax, GunLaw.Pro, Health Planning, Honor, Incapacity Planning, Income Tax, Life, Limitation of Liability, News & Commentary, Operation & Governance, Pet Protection, Probate Admin, Property Tax, Punishment, Regulatory Compliance, Religious Faith, Retirement Planning, Spendthrift Children, Tax Planning, Trust Admin, Venture Protection, WorldExaminer.com
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 4, 2024 | Asset Protection, Blog, Estate Planning, Fortune, Operation & Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Venture Protection
A Texas federal court has just saved a zillion businesses (and family trusts and mere holding companies) the effort of complying with the onerous filing burden under the draconian, oppressive, vague and unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act (and zillions more...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Nov 10, 2024 | Blog, Family Protection, Firearm Legacy, Firearm Training, GunLaw.Pro, Honor, Life
Yesterday Trump announced he will sign full national concealed carry (CCW) reciprocity, meaning you will be allowed to carry in any state as you travel. The bill has been pending in congress for some time, so it will likely be enacted quickly. Just in time, as Gov....