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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.
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.
A Living Trust Primer
Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Managing an Inheritance
A windfall from a loved one can be both rewarding and complicated.
A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes
An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date
Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."
When Heirs are Imperfect
The money problems or bad lifestyle habits of adult children could lead to the squandering of any inheritance they receive.
Four Steps to Valuing an Estate
Determining the value of your estate, or for someone who has passed away, can be a complex undertaking.
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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.
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.
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When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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.