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Apr 13, 20181 min read
Handling Estranged Children
Sometimes parents and children become estranged and no longer stay in contact. How these children should be handled in the parents'...
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Apr 9, 20181 min read
Make the Most of Tax Season
Don’t think of tax time as the worst time of year but as an opportunity to get a good estate plan. Since you have to get all of your...
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Apr 5, 20181 min read
Who Really Needs an Estate Plan?
If you were to survey people about who most needs an estate plan, the most popular answer would likely be incorrect. People think that...
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Apr 4, 20181 min read
Farm Planning
Estate planning for farmers is different than it is for other people, since the focus must be on who will inherit the farm. When farmers...
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Apr 3, 20181 min read
Advice for Widows and Widowers
It is not easy losing a spouse. However, widows and widowers do not have to let dealing with financial issues overwhelm them. When people...
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Apr 2, 20181 min read
Cloning and Estate Planning
As far as anyone knows, there are not any clones of humans walking around yet. However, it might soon be possible. That could have some...
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Mar 30, 20181 min read
Do You Want Your Child to Be Your Executor or Trustee?
Without thinking about it too much, many people designate one of their children to be the executor of their estate. They should think...
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Mar 28, 20181 min read
Real Estate Should Be Put in a Trust
In most cases, real estate has to go through the probate process after the owner passes away. That can be avoided. There is a good way...
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Mar 27, 20181 min read
IRA Inheritance Options
Deciding who should inherit your retirement account is an important part of estate planning. You have several options that are available....
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Mar 19, 20181 min read
A Big Myth Concerning Trusts
If you do too much reading online about the difference between wills and trusts, then you are likely to think of the two as something...
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Mar 16, 20181 min read
Hidden Costs of Probate
People will often go to great lengths to make sure that their estates do not have to go through probate. They often fail to take little...
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Mar 15, 20181 min read
Treating Children Equally When One Is Not Responsible
Most parents want to treat all their children the same in their estate plans. That can be difficult, when one of the children is not very...
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Mar 13, 20181 min read
Revoking a Trust
People commonly wonder if they can revoke a trust that they no longer like and if they can have more than one trust. The answer is not a...
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Mar 12, 20181 min read
Planning for Accident or Illness
It is impossible to know whether you will ever have an accident or have an illness that will leave you incapacitated. However, you can...
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Mar 9, 20181 min read
Blended Families and Trust
Trust can be a key aspect of whether blended families will fight over an estate, after a loved one passes away. Blended families are...
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Mar 8, 20181 min read
Do Your Estate Plan Now
If you are wondering when you should do your estate planning, the best answer that you can get is that you should do it as soon as you...
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Mar 7, 20181 min read
Gifts for Educational Purposes
Giving money to children and grandchildren for educational purposes is a common goal in estate planning. There are several different ways...
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Feb 26, 20181 min read
When Minors are Your Heirs
If you think it is likely your heirs will be minors would when you pass away, it is best to do so differently than you would leave assets...
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Feb 21, 20181 min read
A Few Documents Can Launch an Estate Plan
Estate planning really doesn’t have to be a complicated process. For whatever reason people have delayed creating an estate plan, it...
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Feb 20, 20181 min read
An Easy but Bad Way to Avoid Probate
If you own a home, then there is a very simple thing that you can do to make it so that your home will not have to go through probate...
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