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Estate planning involves making key decisions about managing and distributing your assets after passing. A critical part of this process is appointing a trustee. This individual or entity manages your trust, ensuring your wishes are honored and your beneficiaries...
Estate planning is the legal process of making your wishes known for after your passing. It is often believed to be something that is only for the rich or elderly, but that is not the case. Estate planning can benefit adults of all ages. To get started, it can help to...
Wealth preservation plays a crucial role in estate planning. It ensures your assets remain intact and benefits future generations. A solid strategy helps protect your wealth from inflation, taxes, and market volatility. Regularly reviewing your wealth preservation...
Families may sometimes question the validity of estate planning documents. Some people draft wills when they are too old or too sick to really understand the implications of their estate planning decisions. Others may establish estate planning documents that include...
One issue you may run into as you make your estate plan is that you have beneficiaries who are under 18. Maybe you’re thinking about leaving financial assets to your grandchildren. You know that they can use the money to pay for their college education a decade from...
Much of estate planning concerns legal documents such as wills and trusts. However, it requires an executor or trustee to implement the instructions in those documents. The executor executes the will and trustees manage the assets held in trusts. These are fiduciary...
There are a number of ways that grandparents can help with the increasingly high cost of a college education (not to mention graduate school costs) for their grandchildren. If you want to ease that financial burden for your grandchildren (and their parents), it’s...
People generally have to pay income taxes regardless of how much they earn or the source of their income. They file an annual income tax return to reconcile what they paid with their final financial information for the year. However, some people become complacent...
When parents draft estate plans, they do not always leave the same amount of assets to every beneficiary. This is known as leaving unequal bequests, and it has been growing more common over the years. Rather than giving four children 25% ownership of the family home,...
Documents such as wills and trusts are a very important part of estate planning. They provide instructions on how an individual’s assets will be addressed upon their death. However, documents are only one part of the process. The individuals tasked with carrying out...
