Estate
Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.
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Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
4 Steps to Protecting a Child with Disabilities
Planning for a special-needs child can be complicated, confusing, and even overwhelming.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
Four Steps to Valuing an Estate
Determining the value of your estate, or for someone who has passed away, can be a complex undertaking.
When Heirs are Imperfect
The money problems or bad lifestyle habits of adult children could lead to the squandering of any inheritance they receive.
A Living Trust Primer
Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.
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