Estate
Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Helping Your Children Prepare for an Inheritance
Six strategies to facilitate an important – though potentially uncomfortable – conversation around inheriting wealth.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
White Elephant Inheritance
This article deals with how one might deal with a burdensome inheritance.
Revocable Trusts Explained
Revocable trusts can be used to help ensure your financial wishes are met while you are living and after death.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
When Should You Revisit Your Estate Plan?
Buying a house? Moving to a new state? There are many good reasons to take another look at your will and estate plans.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
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Comparing Mortgage Terms
Compare different mortgage term lengths side by side to find the option that fits your budget.
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When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
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