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.
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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?
Year-End Planning: Preserve, Grow, and Give
Ensure your wealth is preserved, grown, and passed on by using strategic, purposeful year-end planning for lasting impact.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
A Hard Conversation Made Easy
Communication is key to a smooth transfer of wealth and the fulfillment of your wishes. Explore estate planning as a family.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
Creating a Comprehensive Estate Plan
What does it take to create or update your estate plan? Here's a 7-step Estate Planning Checklist to help you get started.
3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families
This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.
Strategies to Defend Purchasing Power Across Generations
Keep your wealth working by preserving purchasing power over time.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
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Comparing Mortgage Terms
Compare different mortgage term lengths side by side to find the option that fits your budget.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
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.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
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.
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