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You make things easier for the children, by planning for the possibility of a nursing home stay because you take the burden off the children to make crisis decisions for your long-term care costs.
Anyone with a child with special needs understands the need to prepare for the future. A trust is always a good place to start, and figuring out a savings goal for that trust is a key part to your planning.
You might be amazed at some of the bizarre places that people put their documents. It would take you a month of Sundays to find the papers if the person had not told you where to look.
Life insurance can offer income and saving options for the long term.
Some things don’t disappear even when you die, including credit card debt.
One in five Americans has married at least twice. However, a sobering 60% of second marriages end in divorce, the Census Bureau found.
Sometimes you have to hold the reins tight, especially when it comes to money. A spendthrift trust does exactly that.
Getting older often represents new opportunities, such as enjoying retirement and spending time with grandchildren. However, aging also means that individuals are at a higher risk for health-related struggles, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Your obligations to your family or loved ones do not stop, even if you have already passed on. If your family, especially your children, are still heavily dependent on you, you can still provide for them through proper estate planning, even if you are no longer present.
If you haven’t looked at your will or estate plan lately, now is a good time to do so.
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