How Protected Do You Feel?

Welcome back to Hope for the Caregiver.

This is Peter Rosenberger. This is the nation's number one program for you as a family caregiver. Let me ask you a quick question. Are you struggling with some legal matters? Okay, could be getting a power of attorney.

Do you have all the right documents? You got a will, medical power of attorney, all those kinds of things. What about you just got a dispute with something?

What about something that's kind of troubling with some estate planning? Or some conflict within your family over something or somebody has done something that you're, you know, pretty uncomfortable with and you need to have a lawyer that gets involved. How much does all that cost you? How much is all that going to run you? You know, they say lawyers are pretty expensive. What if you could have a service that provides all of that and so much more for just a fraction of what an hourly lawyer is going to charge you? What if you could do it, if I said you could do it for under $30 a month?

Would you believe me? Well, you ought to because I've been doing it for years. And that's why I use Legal Shield. And I brought in somebody today that I want to talk about this wonderful service that's available because as caregivers, we're running into all kinds of things. We don't know what we're going to be faced with sometimes from day to day, knowing that you have a lawyer that is there for you, to advocate for you, to give you counsel and guidance on really sticky matters.

And it's not going to break your wallet to do it. And so I invited Michelle Schulman who introduced me to this program many years ago. And I signed up and I have been involved with, let's see, I've had, I'll tell you one thing that I did. I had a dispute with Lyft, the rideshare service. And so got an attorney involved in that. There's all kinds of things that are going to come up in our daily lives.

Do you have that kind of resource to go and get you a law firm? Most of us don't. If you do, God bless you.

But you know what? For the rest of us, there's a better plan. And so, Michelle, thank you for being a part of the program today. Welcome and glad to have you here.

Well, thanks, Peter. It's a pleasure to be here. This service is an extraordinary opportunity for people to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones and to navigate through the sticky wicket. Talk a little bit about it. Tell me how you got involved with this. We got involved in it. We had heard about it and thought it was a great thing, but like so many of us, it was like, yeah, it'd be nice to have, but.

And we kind of put it off. And then my husband had somebody sue him. It was a frivolous lawsuit. And we spoke to an attorney and he wanted a lot of money as a retainer. So Larry said, well, let's try this legal shield thing and see how it works. Can I interrupt you just for a second? Just out of curiosity, how much was the retainer?

It was $4,500 22 years ago. Yeah. And that's it. So he came home and said, you know, let's try this legal shield and see how it works. We signed up and they found us an attorney. And because it was a pre-existing issue, he needed a retainer as well, but it was $1,200. He made the entire issue go away in two weeks. It just disappeared. And he sent us a letter and said, thank you so much for allowing me to represent you.

Please let me know if I can help you in the future. And this was the corker, Peter, in that envelope was a check. We got a refund from a lawyer for $300. So for a $4,500 retainer, and I know you have listeners out there that have used lawyers and attorneys, and they have paid them thousands of dollars and they have never known where that money went, how the attorney spent it. They can't get a statement.

They don't get any itemized anything. And here we have an attorney give us a refund. It just blew our minds and got us believing in this to begin with. That's extraordinary. And I know that there are so many stories like that, and I know the headache it took off of me to think I somehow have to figure this out by myself. I mean, you, of course, know Gracie and me.