Business is looking sunny for Yountville’s newest children’s boutique, Lemondrops. 

Each Wednesday, the Napa Valley Register’s Business Focus asks “10 Questions” of a local entrepreneur or businessperson. Readers are welcome to suggest business people to be profiled.

What could be more frightening than Halloween being over? Answer: The mega-holiday season that is already here.

Is it jobs, then spending, or spending, then jobs? The nation looks for each newsflash or business report indicating an end to economic decline and a return to prosperity.

Dear Len & Rosie, My recently deceased brother had a daughter 30 years ago. He and his wife divorced within her first year of her life. Apparently, my brother’s daughter was adopted by her mother’s second husband after she remarried. Would this daughter be legally entitled to any part of my brother’s estate or his trust? My brother had a living trust and didn’t want to leave anything to her, but the trust didn’t specifically name her and exclude her from an inheritance. Instead, the trust said, “I have purposefully omitted any other relatives from any and all distributions.” Is this a problem? -- Nancy