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.
Perspectives on Estate Planning
Estate Planning is not just for the extremely wealthy
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Estate Management Checklist
Is your estate in order? This short quiz may help you assess your overall strategy.
Why Everyone Needs an Estate Plan – Yes, Even You
No matter where you are in your life – just starting out, a couple years into your career or planning for retirement – you can and should have an estate plan.
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."
A Living Trust Primer
Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.
3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families
If you’ve been re-married or divorced, these family structures may present some unique challenges. This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.
Succeeding at Business Succession
There are a number of reasons for business owners to consider a business succession plan sooner rather than later.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Perspectives on Estate Planning
Estate Planning is not just for the extremely wealthy
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
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