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.

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When Do You Need a Will?

When Do You Need a Will?

When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date

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."

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

Choosing a Business Structure

Entrepreneurs all face the same question, “Which business structure should I adopt?”

A Brief Guide to Prenups

Society’s views on prenuptial agreements are evolving. Here’s how prenups can make your relationship stronger.

Everything You Need To Know About Tax-Free Family Gifting

With a well-planned gifting strategy, you can transfer wealth tax-free to your beneficiaries.

Problems with Probate

Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.

Address Potential Incapacity with Estate Planning

Use a power of attorney and revocable trust to ensure your wishes are honored if you become incapacitated.

Managing Family Dynamics in Business Succession

Preserve both your business and your family bonds with a thoughtful succession strategy.

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4 Elements of an Estate Strategy

Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.

When Do You Need a Will?

When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

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.

Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous

Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart

Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?

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