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.
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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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Managing the Risk of Outliving Your Money
Steps to help you sustain and grow your retirement savings.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Succeeding at Business Succession
There are a number of reasons for business owners to consider a business succession plan sooner rather than later.
What is the Value of Your Business?
Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.
4 Steps to Protecting a Child with Disabilities
Planning for a child with special needs 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."
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
Estate Management Checklist
Is your estate in order? This short quiz may help you assess your overall strategy.
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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
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