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Estate PlanningAt the heart of every estate plan is what the client holds dearest: children, spouse, life partner, or friend; faith or community organization; even pets. Working around this, a successful plan considers the risks and challenges that may be faced, such as death or illness, and seeks to prepare for these.

 

 

When we help you with your estate planning, we create documents that convey your intentions for your assets after death, identify those responsible for settling any debts and distributing your assets, and express your preferences with regard to your care if you become disabled before death. Typical estate documents include wills, trusts, healthcare and financial powers of attorney, and living wills.

 

 
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Estate Planning for Your Pets

Why Plan For Your Pet? As a pet owner, you want the best for your pets.  When the day comes that you are no longer able to provide for the care ...

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What You Should Know About Divorce and Estate Planning

Going through a divorce is very traumatic. There can be hard feelings. There are dozens of difficult decisions to be made and papers to be signed. It creates a serious ...

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Planning For Tax-Qualified Plans

Planning for tax-qualified plans, which includes IRAs, 401(k)s and qualified retirement plans, requires a careful examination of the potential taxes that impact these assets. Unlike most other assets that receive ...

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Stay Bonus

A Stay Bonus is an inducement to your key employees to remain with the company after your death to preserve the enterprise value of the business. It is a contract ...

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Probate Process

One of the great mysteries in estate planning is probate. Many people believe that if you are married a probate is unnecessary. Others believe that probate can be avoided by ...

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What is Estate Planning?

Let’s start with what it isn’t. Estate planning is not just for the wealthy. It is not just about avoiding probate and minimizing taxes. It is not just transferring wealth ...

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Lifetime Gifting Program

A lifetime gifting program allows you to avoid gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax on transferred assets. Under the Internal Revenue, Code, you can transfer up to $13,000 per year, ...

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A Values-Based Approach to Preserving a Family Legacy - Part

In Part I we discussed the how the Planning Pyramid to craft a values-based estate plan. Here we will use an example to discuss some distribution options that are often ...

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