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.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Smart Homeownership Strategies in a Changing Market
Learn how to evaluate your readiness to buy a home, and make a decision that supports your long-term goals.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long been a source of funding for the federal government.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Inheritance
Learn how to discuss inheritance with your adult children in a way that sets expectations and reduces uncertainty.
Test Your Estate Strategy Knowledge
Estate management can help ensure that your assets are transferred according to your wishes while managing tax issues.
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."
Protecting Your Assets in Divorce
Learn key information about state laws, protecting your property, and preparing financially for a separation.
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When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
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.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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