What about House Contents when Someone Dies?
It is quite a tragedy when a loved one passes away. You may want to remember them by keeping sentimental objects from their home, or perhaps they wanted you to inherit a specific item.
Are Trusts a Useful Tool?
One type of trust, the qualified perpetual trust, can be used to pass assets down to your beneficiaries, decade after decade.
Estate Planning Tips for Aging Solo
So, what happens with your estate plans if you are not in a traditional nuclear family? There is quite a lot that can fall under the umbrella of a non-traditional family, and the recommendations will vary depending on your specific circumstances.
Create a Legacy With Your IRAs
Maximize the impact of your legacy and make sure it supports the people and causes that are most important to you.
Is Your Estate Plan Ready for Tax Changes?
There are useful estate planning vehicles that take advantage of current historically high federal exemptions, while providing flexibility to adapt and modify those plans based upon future events or tax law changes.
Do You Want to Be an Executor?
Only you know your capacity and willingness to serve, or the degree of need expressed by the person asking you. However, it should help to know first that if you do decide to accept, there can be help out there and second there are standard procedures and practices you can follow.
Living Trust vs. Last Will – Which is Right for You?
In this article, we will address two terms which some people use interchangeably, but which are very different things: living trusts and estate plans.
Why Is Beneficiary Designation Important?
When you set up your estate plan it is important to coordinate the legal planning documents that you or you and your attorney create with the document provided by your retirement account custodian and/or your life insurance carrier called a ‘Designation of Beneficiary.’
Supplemental Needs Trust Preserves Essential Government Benefits
For disabled persons receiving financially based government benefits, supplemental needs trusts (‘SNTs’) can safeguard benefits and serve as an effective estate planning tool.
What Is a Pour-Over Will?
A pour-over will can be an important part of a person’s estate planning checklist.
