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Posts Categorized: Estate Planning
“Be Giving While You’re Living so You’re Knowing Where it’s Going”
Here is a way to test drive your estate plan while you can still tweak it.
What happens to our digital property after we die?
Estate planning in the digital world can raise some interesting issues.
The Importance of Having Your Own Rulebook
Setting out your wishes in your very own rulebook may be an opportunity that you can’t afford to pass up.
Art: Trash or Treasure?
How should families fortunate enough to own valuable collections deal with their art or other objects in their estate plans? Here are some thoughts.
Tax Court Upholds Formula Gifts
Chalk one up for the taxpayers!
Facebook Founders Find Estate Planning Fix
Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, the co-founders of Facebook and two of the world’s youngest billionaires, may seem too young to be thinking about estate planning. But in 2008, when they were both 24, they used an estate planning tool that is more familiar to people two or three times their age.
Who’s on First?
Not knowing the language of estate planning can put you in the middle of a not-so-funny situation.
Best Picture Nominee “The Descendants” is Full of Estate Planning Nuggets
“The Descendants” is entertaining on many levels, and it rightly deserves its Best Picture nomination.
Ongoing Estate Tax Uncertainty
The future of the federal estate tax is in the hands of the voters this November. A lot depends on the makeup of Congress come 2013. Here are some probable scenarios of how the current uncertainty will play out.