The Importance of Revocable Trusts in Estate Planning
Revocable trusts are a powerful tool for anyone’s estate planning. Use them to protect your assets during your lifetime, manage taxes and streamline inheritance.
Don’t Leave for Summer Vacation without Proper Planning
Having proper documents in place before your summer break, you can enjoy your vacation with the confidence that your affairs are in order, allowing you to relax and recharge fully.
Why Consider a Prenup before Your Wedding?
Prenuptial agreements are becoming more popular as couples seek financial clarity and protection. They help manage assets and debts and reduce conflicts, ensuring a stable future.
Who Takes Care of My Pet When I Die?
Learn more about the personal-finance aspects of pet insurance and pet estate planning.
What Happens When Blended Families Ignore Estate Planning?
In standard estate plans, a surviving spouse often has no legal obligation to stepchildren.
Trusts Prevent Delays for Loved Ones
Your family may struggle to get the money you leave them if it gets caught in probate. Set up a trust to ensure that your loved ones are secure, even when you’re gone.
Can You 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. In 2014, Congress created The Achieving a…
Estate Planning Checklist to Keep You Focused
For people nearly or newly retired, who potentially still have decades ahead for their assets to compound and grow, estate taxes are a huge concern.
Estate Planning Questions for Couples with a Big Age Gap
For couples with an age difference of 10 years or more, assets need to last significantly longer to cover both of their retirements, making the risks of missteps higher.
Who Gets Access to Your Digital Assets Account When You Die?
From engaging with people professionally and personally, to posting photos, storing files and accessing our bank account information, this all represents what’s known as our ‘digital legacy.’
