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.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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."
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.
What is the Value of Your Business?
Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.
Managing the Risk of Outliving Your Money
Steps to help you sustain and grow your retirement savings.
Steps to Protecting a Child with Disabilities
Planning for children with special needs can be confusing but by working together, we can help navigate those challenges.
And the Executor Is
The right executor may help ensure the distribution of your assets is done with as little upheaval as possible.
Intellectual Property Rocks in a New Digital Era
Intellectual property ownership and its implications for ordinary people and estates.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
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What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
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.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?