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
Tax Scams Involving Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts
Part of the agency’s latest annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ scams, these potentially ‘abusive arrangements’ involve charitable remainder annuity trusts and monetized installment sales.
May 22, 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
Consider these Overlooked Elements in your Planning
There are certain provisions that people often forget to put in a will or estate plan that can have a big impact on a family.
April 26, 2023
Planning to Protect your Pet after Death
Although in the past it may not have been the norm to provide for animals in our estate planning, times have changed.
March 27, 2023
Trust can be Designed to be Millennial Friendly
If your estate plan benefits Gen Y (also known as Millennials) it’s important to design a trust that supports what makes them thrive.
March 22, 2023
Some Best Practices for a Trustee to follow
Being a trustee is difficult. However, adopting the following four best practices employed by professional trustees will go a long way to ensure that you’ll effectively execute your duties and mitigate your liability.
March 9, 2023
Steps Seniors should take before Remarrying
As the calendar turned to 2023, many of us took a moment to think about resolutions. I want to lose 10 pounds. I want to read things that aren’t just about work. I want to learn how to play pickleball. Or maybe this year I’ll give a relationship another shot. Maybe I’ll even remarry.
March 6, 2023