Ensuring Your Estate Plan is Current Before Traveling: A Step-by-Step Guide

Planning a trip can be exciting, but before you jet off, it’s essential to ensure that your estate plan is up-to-date. Life is unpredictable, and having a current estate plan provides peace of mind, knowing that your wishes will be honored if anything unexpected happens. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you ensure your estate plan is current before traveling.
Affluent Parents Maximize Tax-Free Giving to Children

Affluent estate owners are opting to support their children and grandchildren financially during their lifetimes. We explore three strategies that can maximize tax-free giving to consider in your estate planning.
How to Support a Child with Special Needs?

Families that include individuals with special needs require planning to secure their loved ones’ security in the future, both in legal and financial terms. There’s usually no expectation of the child becoming an independent adult, so careful planning is needed, as advised in the recent article “Financial Planning for Families with Disabilities” from Wealth Management. Many families neglect planning for their retirement, focusing all their resources on developing a plan for their disabled child. However, retirement and their child’s future need to be secured, which is where an estate planning attorney can help.
What Does an Elder Law Attorney Do?

Estate Planning may not be something you necessarily WANT to think about, but it could protect your interests and wishes long after you are gone.
The Ultimate Retirement Bucket List: A Prescription for Mental Health

A bucket list is not just a collection of dreams – it’s a prescription for mental well-being in retirement. By staying active, engaged, and focused on meaningful goals, older adults can cultivate a sense of purpose and fulfillment that carries them through their later years. What are you waiting for? Start making your ultimate retirement bucket list today.
Estate Planning Strategies Support Aging Parents

An estate plan with wealth preservation, long-term care and medical directives strategies provides clarity and guidance to loved ones on aging parents’ wishes, while retaining control for aging parents over financial and health-related matters.
Seniors Be Careful: Elder Financial Exploitation More than Doubled Since COVID

While we all hope to age gracefully, we need to prepare for the potential risks of aging as it relates to investing and financial wellbeing.
How Many Americans Live with Dementia?

About one in 10 U.S. adults over 65 has dementia and even more have mild cognitive impairment, updated national estimates suggested.
Common Questions Concerning SECURE Act 2.0

The speakers touched on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, including the provision that a designated beneficiary must distribute the entire inherited IRA by Dec. 31 of the 10th year after the employee’s or IRA owner’s death (the 10-year rule), thus doing away with the stretch IRA for most beneficiaries.
How Do Special Needs Trusts Work?

Protect your adult children with disabilities using a special needs trust.