Another approach is to talk to people who might be able to provide information about your loved one's policy. A good place to start is with people your loved one worked for.  Ask employers if your loved one purchased life insurance as part of a company benefits package.  Additionally, you can inquire with unions or associations that your loved one belonged to. Sometimes these entities offer life insurance. Close associates of your loved one like friends or other family members might know if she or he had insurance. They may be able to tell you where to find information about the policy. People often discuss their insurance policies with these individuals. Try to speak with the attorney who drafted your loved one’s will. They may have discussed life insurance during the drafting of the will. Often consumers will buy more than one insurance product through the same agent. Contact any agent or agents who sold your loved one an automobile or property insurance policy and ask if they also sold a life insurance policy. These agents may have also sold your loved one a life insurance policy or referred him or her to someone who did.
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One-sentence summary -- Talk to employers. Talk to friends or family members. Ask your loved one's attorney or accountant. Talk to the insurance agent for a different policy.


Entertainment lawyers specialize in the legal aspects of the entertainment industry, including optioning film rights. Since they are so well-versed with the process, they are invaluable to those seeking to purchase the film rights to an established work. This is the preferred method because you don't pay as much up front. The option requires you as the potential buyer to pay the author an amount of money for the option to purchase the film rights. The contract typically lasts for a specific period of time, during which you may try to get everything together to execute the production of the film. Once you are ready to produce the film, you will then exercise your option to purchase film rights. If the option deal doesn’t go through, the author may, depending on the agreement, retain the initial payment amount and any renewal amounts received from the buyer and still keep the movie rights with the ability to sell them elsewhere. This time frame can vary and can include extensions on the initial period of time that often require another payment to the author. Often, the option period will last 6-12 months. Extensions may last 3-6 months. You may also ask to renegotiate the option instead of ask for further extensions. You’ll have an initial payment, which may be a percentage of the total purchase price, and the amount you’ll pay for any extensions included in the agreement. The initial payment may very likely go toward the purchase of the film rights once you take the option to buy them, but extension payments may not. Maximum percentage-based initial payments usually fall within 2.5 to 5 percent of the purchase price. The author may want a small percentage of the proceeds of the film to go to them, should you go through with the purchase and produce the film. This is generally a small percentage of those proceeds and can be negotiated prior to signing the agreement. These productions might include sequels, prequels, or even television series that are based on the original literary work or first film adaption of the work. There are some industry-specific figures for these royalties, including a royalty of 1/3 the purchase price paid for the rights of the original work per remake, etc. Television films and series may have different, yet negotiable royalty shares. You should make clear the rights the author reserves in the option agreement. These may include publication rights, the right to publish sequels, prequels, or other canonical works, or other rights. If the author has particular rights that he or she wants to reserve for him or herself, be sure to include them in the option agreement. You may need a lawyer to assist you in the signing because the agreement will be written using specialized legal verbiage. After signing the agreement, pay the writer the option price.
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One-sentence summary -- Secure the advice of an entertainment lawyer. Prepare a rights deal with an option agreement. Set an option period for the deal. Establish the option payments. Include back-end compensation for the author in the agreement. Determine the amount of any royalties you’ll pay to the writer for subsequent productions. Include reserved rights in the agreement. Sign the option agreement along with the writer and pay the agreed option price.


Auditions are usually held between the middle of January and the middle of April, but you should find out more specific information by checking Family Feud's official auditions website.  Auditions usually take place shortly before the new season starts. Auditions are typically held in four to six cities across the United States. They take place over the course of one weekend at each location. No team can audition if its members violate the show's basic rules.  Your prospective team must consist of five members, and everyone must be related by blood, marriage, or law. All family members must be U.S. citizens. Anyone who is not a citizen must at least have permission to work within the U.S. No team member can be related to or acquainted with someone who works for the show, Fremantle Media, Debmar-Mercury, Wanderlust Productions, or any of the show's affiliates. No one on the team can be running for political office. Anyone who has appeared on more than two game shows within the past year is ineligible. Similarly, anyone who has been on Family Feud within the past ten years is ineligible. The show has no strict age requirement, but it is recommended that the teammates should be at least 15 years of age. To ensure that your family has a chance to audition, you should send an e-mail to the appropriate casting department for the city you will be auditioning in. The e-mail address for each city can be found on the show's auditions page, but it is usually the name of the city followed by "@familytryouts.com." For instance:  The e-mail address for Austin, Texas try-outs is Austin@familytryouts.com. Phoenix, Arizona try-outs go to Phoenix@familytryouts.com. Boston, Massachusetts try-outs go to Boston@familytryouts.com San Francisco, California try-outs go to bayarea@familytryouts.com. Indianapolis, Indiana try-outs go to Indianapolis@familytryouts.com. Your family will be assigned a time slot on the date of the audition. It is best to show up at least an hour early to make sure that you will have time to make it through the check-in line. After checking in, your family will be given forms to fill out before the actual audition. Families who turn in the forms first will audition first.  Prepare to fill out basic information, such as name, age, and other eligibility factors. Write down an "interesting fact" about yourself. The fact can concern your job, hobbies, or anything else that makes you stand out. Prepare a narrative about your family. Again, the more unique it is, the more appealing your family will be to the casting directors. Explain what you would do with the money if you won. Families that have a purpose or plan in mind are more likely to be accepted than those who do not. After turning in your applications, the moderator will have you play two rounds of a practice game.  In one round, you will do the face-off while the other team prepares for the steal. In the other round, another team does the face-off while your team prepares for the steal. Winning or losing the rounds has nothing to do with who passes the audition. The practice game is played in front of an audience consisting of other auditioning families. Be energetic and natural. As a whole, your family needs to be enthusiastic in order to catch the attention of the casting directors. If one member of your family is a little more subdued, however, let that person behave naturally instead of trying to force a bubbly personality that does not exist. As long as the rest of the family has the excitement to make up for the one person who lacks it, you might still have a chance. Don't stress out about right and wrong answers. You need to take the game seriously, but at the end of the audition, the casting directors will care more about the families whose members stood out than those whose members had all the answers. Being an entertainer is more important than being a genius.
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Find out the where and when. Know the eligibility requirements. Schedule your audition. Be prompt. Fill out the forms. Play a practice game.