Why Is Updating Your Will Necessary?
Changes in tax law and in your personal life may mean that yours needs to be updated. Here are the easiest (and smartest) ways to do it.
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What Is Better, a Trust or a Will?
Preparing an estate plan for managing and distributing your assets in the case of death is one of the most important steps you could take to protect and provide for loved ones.
How Do I Store Estate Planning Documents?
A common dilemma that families face upon the incapacity or death of a loved one is locating estate planning documents. While preparing the documents are the most important step, that is irrelevant if the documents are lost when they most need to be used.
Important Estate Planning Documents
Since we’re all going to die (yes, even those of us who are still in our 20s!), we might as well make things easier for the loved ones who, along with grieving our loss, will have to deal with the financial and logistical pieces of our lives.
Has the Pandemic Made People More Aware of Estate Planning?
Close to half of respondents earning $80,000 a year or more have a will, an increase of 7% since 2020, according to Caring.com.
How Does My Inherited IRA Fit into Estate Planning?
Most people don’t know the first thing about the Secure Act and yet it has great impact on their retirement planning.
What are the Important Estate Planning Documents?
Nobody likes to talk about it, but death is inevitable for all of us. Therefore, you should count every moment as a blessing. Beyond this, you should remember there’s no time to waste, when it comes to preparing for your eventual passing.
Does Power of Attorney Perform the Same Way in Every State?
The law sometimes appears to contradict itself. Specifically, the words ‘anything and everything’ do not always legally mean ‘anything and everything’.
Does Estate Administration Need to Be Supervised?
What is an unsupervised administration and why is it better than other types?
What Assets are Not Considered Part of an Estate?
In presentations regarding essential actions individuals should take regarding inheritance, emphasis is usually placed on drafting a will. This leaves unanswered what happens to assets that do not pass by will —so called non-probate assets.
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