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.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families
This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)
Explaining Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs) and their benefit to estate strategy.
Managing the Risk of Outliving Your Money
Steps to help you sustain and grow your retirement savings.
Intellectual Property Rocks in a New Digital Era
Intellectual property ownership and its implications for ordinary people and estates.
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
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Comparing Mortgage Terms
Compare different mortgage term lengths side by side to find the option that fits your budget.
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4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
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