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Posts Categorized: Estate Planning
When should I think about estate planning?
The best estate planning not only addresses our affairs after death, it also gets our affairs in order under potentially adverse circumstances during our lifetime.
Fast And Furious Star Slowed Down To Plan Ahead
Paul Walker signed his will in August of 2001, when he was only 28 years old. This is the same year his first Fast & Furious movie was released.
Get That Retirement Nest Egg Growing!
While saving more for retirement is a popular New Year’s resolution, it often fails because people don’t have a plan to actually save more. The first months of the New Year are over. Are you on track to save as much for retirement as you thought?
Make Sure You Know What You Want In Your Will, and Make It Clear
The best way to prevent bickering after someone is gone is good estate planning, done while the person is clearly of sound mind. While the specifics of Nelson Mandela’s estate plan are not yet known, his legacy will be tarnished by a battle over his estate.
One for me, two for him?
Children almost always interpret unequal inheritances as an expression of unequal love, and giving one child more than another may cause resentment.
Preserving The Family Business
Family businesses account for much of this country’s domestic product and are essential to the American Dream. Whether it is a century-old international automobile manufacturer or a group of local dry-cleaners, family involvement in the business is a common goal. Like anything worth keeping, it takes work to preserve.
Cost Basis Planning
Now that only 0.2% of us have to worry about the estate tax (for the time being, anyway), it is appropriate to focus on the capital gains tax as the primary threat to our ability to pass assets to our loved ones.
Booming Windfall
They are in their 50’s and 60’s, they are probably inheriting from financially conservative parents, and they are dealing with deep emotional reactions.
Lawsuit Sheds Light On Medicare Coverage For Rehabilitation
For years, it has been an article of faith that Medicare would not pay for services such as skilled nursing or physical therapy unless that care improved a patient’s health status.
How did this misunderstanding go on for so long?