
Ways to Minimize Your Probate Estate
Estate planning is not just for the wealthy. Anyone with a bank account, house, car or other personal property should have a will.

Estate planning is not just for the wealthy. Anyone with a bank account, house, car or other personal property should have a will.

What types of decisions have you and your loved ones made, or avoided making, about planning for the years ahead?

When someone dies with money left in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), the funds can get passed on to the person’s loved ones through an inherited IRA.

Traditional, very simple estate planning may not be sufficient to accomplish estate planning goals in many blended family situations.

You spend a lifetime building your business, so it’s crucial to have a game plan when it’s time to leave. Being prepared will help optimize the transition from a financial and tax perspective.

Political instability, rampant inflation and the specter of recession are looming threats to our clients’ financial future, which directly impacts their ability to take care of themselves at a point in their lives when they are likely to need care or other age-related services.

Even Consumer Reports suggests working with an experienced estate planning attorney to make sure documents are correctly prepared.

It may sound like it makes sense, and it might be easier than picking a person (or two) to name, however there are some serious downsides to naming your estate as the beneficiary for your IRA.

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A critical item is often missing from back-to-school college checklists — and it could be far more valuable than anything else your student takes to school this fall: signed legal documents.