
Preparing for Retirement with a Special Needs Child
People with children who cannot support themselves need to think well past their own lifetime and figure out how to provide for children after they are gone.

People with children who cannot support themselves need to think well past their own lifetime and figure out how to provide for children after they are gone.

The important thing to acknowledge is that the emotions behind the reasons are not trivial, but are important and should not be dismissed or minimized.

A living will is a legal document expressing your wishes on receiving or declining medical care or life-sustaining treatments should you become terminally ill or injured and unable to communicate those decisions for yourself.

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.