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.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations? Here are three tips.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
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.
Yours, Mine and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriages
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
Trends in Charitable Giving
Some people may want a more advanced gifting strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
And the Executor Is
The right executor may help ensure the distribution of your assets is done with as little upheaval as possible.
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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's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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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?
Do You Feel Lucky?
Recent changes in estate tax laws could affect the strategy you have in place.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
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