What is the Purpose of a Blind Trust?
Trusts can be used to hold assets for a beneficiary, and you may hear about them when carrying out estate planning or evaluating strategies to pass investments to heirs.
June 27, 2023
Avoid Unintended Consequences with your Planning
Although there is certainly no shortage of people with selfish or malevolent intent, a great number of estate plans that end in disaster are due to unintended consequences.
May 11, 2023
Protecting Assets with a Trust vs. LLC
To protect assets effectively, you have to store them in the right legal entity. However, that can depend on whether you’re looking to protect business assets, avoid estate taxes, or protect personal assets from legal liability while running a business.
May 10, 2023
Revocable Trusts Must Be Funded to be Effective
The primary benefits of revocable trusts only are available if a revocable trust is FUNDED during life. Unfortunately, experienced estate planning attorneys often have clients who delay the funding of their revocable trusts until it is too late and miss many of the benefits that these trusts provide.
May 3, 2023
Better to have a Revocable or an Irrevocable Trust?
Trusts are excellent vehicles for probate avoidance, ease of transition of funds to one’s beneficiaries upon death, asset protection planning and estate tax planning.
February 20, 2023
Benefits of Creating a Life Estate
Once you create a life estate, property rights vest in your heir.
February 14, 2023
Avoid Leaving Residual Assets Behind
In simple terms, a residuary estate is any part of your estate that hasn’t been distributed to your heirs through a last will and testament.
January 4, 2023
Steps to Ensure a Smooth Probate
The probate process can be expensive for some estates. Settling an estate through probate can cost you both time and money.
December 7, 2022
Take Care When Naming a Co-Trustee
Unlike a last will and testament, a revocable living trust is effective during your lifetime.
November 8, 2022
Creating an Estate Plan with Minor Children
When preparing estate planning documents, certain beneficiaries may need more protection than others. One particular class of beneficiaries that needs to be intentionally considered is minor children.
October 24, 2022