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 Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
Four Reasons Millennials Need an Estate Strategy
Estate strategies for millennials may sound like less of a concern than retirement, but young adults should prepare now.
Revising Estate Strategy Assumptions
Estate tax exemptions rules appear to be stabilizing, prompting many to reconsider conventional estate strategies.
Why You Need an Estate Strategy
Do you have an estate strategy? You should.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
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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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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.