Director of Planning and Development with A Better Choice Foundation. Helping People Protect Their Quality of LIFE - Providing resources, education and information for persons seeking assistance and direction with difficult decisions in life involving protecting their quality of life, their livelihood, legal, career, health care, family and financial decisions through the different phases of life for themselves and their loved ones. 

Bonnie Kaufmann, former legal assistant to Stephen Kaufmann with the law office A Better Choice Elder Law, Retirement and Estate Planning Center. Former President of Heritage Planning Group, Also an Asset protection  - Financial consultant. Together they write nd provide Legal and Financial education for "LIFE" - Legal, Insurance, Financial and Estate Planning.

She is mostly known for her public service work on a regular basis with education programs through The A Better Choice Foundation, The Estate Planning Institute and the law firm ABC LAW. She researches and addresses issues that effect peoples personal privacy, liberties, health care, legal-financial, retirement, financial and long term care matters. She is the host of the radio program The Law and Your Money which is aired on the web site abclaw.com and other various radio programs throughout the US upon request.

Her background includes being the only daughter raised in a home of carpenters in the metropolitan DC area. There she grew up in the late 60's and early 70's while going to school as a minority caucasian during the troubled times due to segregation battles and drugs in the schools.

During that time she maintained her status of leadership and respect among her peers as a sports team captain. She was chosen and trained at Maryland University and became the first professionally trained peer conflict and drug counselor for the State's pilot school drug prevention program as a high school student for her peers.

She later married and soon after became a single parent in the early 1970's. She also had the misfortune of becoming disabled by an accident. During a 5 year recovery, she started a cleaning business out of her hospital bed that quickly grew into a residential construction company, then grew to become a commercial construction and consulting company. She was noted in news articles as being one of  it not the first woman hands on general contractor to own and operate her own construction business in the Washington Metropolitan Area in the 70's and in VA in the 80's

For health reasons in the mid 1980's , she moved to Luray VA to continue to raise her 2 sons as she free lanced as a construction consultant and builder.  She went back to school full time to learn computer technology and communications and started steps to change her career while teaching art lessons to elementary school students that otherwise would not have had an art program.

During that time she was contracted by a local county school system to help administrate federal programs for the troubled children and their parents and to administrage the grant funds for Warren County school system in VA. Soon after she was requested to help spear head and develop the Job Training Partnership Act program for that county. Her duties included teaching GED, Job placement Counselling, Overseeing Summer Youth Programs and working with many local and state governmental agencies, businesses, schools, single parents and juvenile agencies dealing with troubled youth. She became very well known in that community in the1980's as a role model for women. During this time she also built ab apartment complex - overseeing the construction for low income housing for disadvantaged persons.

It soon became her goal in life to reach and implement programs to help persons that have difficulties in life to over come and grow into responsible self sufficient citizens. She is committed to helping people make better informed and educated decisions younger in life rather than un-responsible crisis reaction decisions that usually become bad decisions in life.

This desire also soon developed into a deep interest and involvement of Legal, Insurance, Financial and estate planning practices and services for the middle income families. It became her mission to help people understand the importance of making Better Choices involving insurance, financial and legal decisions young in life or as soon as possible. She has since concentrated on educating people about all the various aspects of "LIFE Planning" legal-financial, insurance, retirement and long term care and important estate planning matters that effect a persons destiny in life.

She met Stephen J. Kaufmann in 1994 and soon after married. They live in Luray, VA and together have 5 sons ranging 19 and 32. Three grand children.

Together they have established The Estate Planning Institute. They write educational programs, and professional courses together for lay persons and professionals. They are also the founders of the CEPP professional designation program, Chartered Estate Planning Practitioner self study program for social service workers, attorneys, bankers, life and health and property casualty agents, financial advisors and other professionals that advise persons on a daily basis on financial, health care, insurance and/or legal matters.

Later Bonnie Kaufmann established the LIFE Planners Advocate Training Program for persons seeking to become an advocate to seniors and help to reduce and avoid Elder Abuse - especially sublte financial elder abuse that is one of the most rampant growing ways elders are abused today.

The ABC Learning Park - Bonnie Kaufmann Founder with her husband has since dedicated her knowledge to helping people understand the importance of knowing how to manage their personal matters and taking care of business - taking charge of their lives early and planning for their goals in life as soon as they can for a successful and happy life today and most especially for their later years in LIFE.

Recently Bonnie Kaufmann has had to face several limitations physically and in other ways and is doing all she can to recover  -  keeping busy with animals and people she can spend time with and painting when she can and share her knowledge with without stress - during her recovery process.

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