A living will is a legal document expressing your wishes on receiving or declining medical care or life-sustaining treatments should you become terminally ill or injured and unable to communicate those decisions for yourself.
Do you know what will happen to your property, belongings and debt when you die? What about your children? If you haven’t created an estate plan, now’s the time to start. Here’s how.
Estate planning is not just for the wealthy. Anyone with a bank account, house, car or other personal property should have a will.
Traditional, very simple estate planning may not be sufficient to accomplish estate planning goals in many blended family situations.
During a medical crisis, loved ones must often make decisions quickly on whether to withhold or provide life-sustaining treatments.
Planning for the future provides protection and peace of mind, so it becomes increasingly important to seniors as they approach their twilight years.
Choosing the personal representative of your estate is important. Making the wrong decision can cause utter chaos.
Death, while inevitable, is not often predictable. This can leave many people financially unprepared if their spouse suddenly dies–especially if the deceased was the one that took care of the household balance sheet.
Many people don’t realize the extent of their electronic and digital lives and the potential problems they’re leaving for others to deal with.
Federal estate taxes are no longer a problem for all but the extremely wealthy. However, several states have their own estate taxes and inheritance taxes that could still hit your heirs.
