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.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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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.
A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes
An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
Test Your Estate Strategy Knowledge
Estate management can help ensure that your assets are transferred according to your wishes while managing tax issues.
A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes
An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
Why Everyone Needs an Estate Strategy
Do you have an estate strategy? You should.
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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
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.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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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.
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.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.