How to Avoid Probate
How can we avoid probate and reduce the estate tax for our beneficiaries, who are our two adult children?
How to Protect Digital Property
While cryptocurrency isn’t new, it’s attracted a lot of attention in the past year because of its skyrocketing value, promotion from prominent figures like billionaire Elon Musk, and bitcoin offerings from traditional financial firms like Morgan Stanley.
What Is the Best Way to Make Sure Children Can Handle an Inheritance?
How can you prepare your children to handle the assets they’ll eventually inherit?
Who Owns Marilyn Monroe’s Estate?
There’s no debating the fact that Marilyn Monroe was an icon. She remains one nearly six decades after her mysterious death in 1962 at the age of 36. Monroe and her likeness are still BIG business, generating millions of dollars a year in royalties and license fees.
Estate Planning Lessons from Celebrity Nightmares
The press has made much of the handwritten will that Larry King executed in the months before he died and in which he purports to change his prior will executed in 2015, to leave his estate equally between his children.
Why Would I Need a Living Trust?
Have you made any plans to distribute your assets and take care of your family, when you die or become incapacitated?
Trusts can Work for ‘Regular’ People
When you hear the word trust fund, you might think of the uber-wealthy giving their kids a big chunk of cash on their 25th birthday. However, trust funds aren’t just for the rich.
What Is Prince Harry’s Inheritance from His Mum, Princess Diana?
Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that after being cut off financially by the royal family, he supported his new life in California with his inheritance from Princess Diana.
How to Choose Who Should Serve as Executor or Trustee?
In addition to deciding who gets what when you die, you have key roles to fill that deserve thoughtful deliberation as part of the estate-planning process, experts say.
Are Childhood Collections Part of Your Estate Planning?
COVID-19 has altered how we spend our time. Most forms of socialization were scaled back or continued virtually. The forced isolation reignited a passion for hobbies and collecting.
