Good.

Let me tell you: "an attorney is an expert in the law, just as we are experts in 'things computer.' " Only, "the law most-definitely isn't digital!"

And neither are taxes.

You need to know. When you sail into these waters, you need to take a Pilot aboard and give him or her control of the ship, for the specified purposes and duration. Grant the pilot "limited power of attorney" and then do what s/he says to do ... implicitly.

Pay the pilot his/her fair fees: the cost of crashing into a rock or foundering on an unknown sand-bar would cost you infinitely more, and you wouldn't even see it coming. (You charge people money, too, for what you know how to do, and you've (also) probably "spent a lifetime learning how to do it.")

I have had a good relationship both with an accountant and with a CPA for a number of years, and I can easily count the number of times that both of these people, each experts in their own field, have saved my a*s from things "that never even occurred to me." I don't try to fix my own car, either. I hire contractors to work on my house. Being "an expert," I recognize expertise.

Good advice.

I fix my car and most anything else.

My dad taught me many skills and I learned a lot repairing laboratory instruments.

An attorney is well worth the money.

On a related subject.

I have a large German and U.S. stamp collection.

Potential buyers were rare and offered ridiculously low prices for stamps in excellent condition.

I am talking about unused stamps with glue on the backs.

I know that buyers will probably want to sell the stamps, but I will NOT give them away.

I spent too much time collecting and taking care of them.