Our Estate Planning Blog
Healthcare can be a daunting prospect for seniors, namely because health issues can creep up as people age, and because Medicare comes with a lot of hidden costs that seniors aren’t well-prepared for. However, if there’s one health-related expense that can really catch retirees off-guard, it’s none other than long-term care.
There are many questions that come with inheriting a piece of real estate. Do you want to live in it? Do you want to sell it? Do you have to split the property with another heir?
Thanks to changes in the 2017 tax law, 529 college-savings plans are being used as estate planning tools and to pay for more education-related expenses than ever before, according to InvestmentNews.
As parents age, families sometimes struggle with how to best keep their parents’ financial affairs in order. One common approach is for aging parents to put one or more of their children on their investment accounts, bank accounts and real property.
When you create a living trust, you also sign a pour-over will. One of the main benefits of a trust is avoiding a court proceeding on death called probate, which is when wills are used.
There are milestones in every life. For many, graduations, marriage, children, opening a business and retiring are among these milestones.
We are programmed to contribute the “max” to our retirement accounts and we disregard, or do not understand, the pitfalls of an improperly filled-out beneficiary forms.
You should go to an estate planning attorney to sort things out and make sure both of you are on the same page about who owns what, who gets to stay where and for how long into the future.
Thanks to the Internet, everyone has the ability to draft wills, trusts and a variety of other legal documents. Many documents can be produced for less than $100, requiring only a few mouse clicks and filled-in blanks.
Estate planning is not only for the wealthy—everybody can benefit from ensuring their assets and finances are properly taken care of after their death.
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