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Life insurance allows you to make available to your heirs a significant amount of money upon your death. When life insurance benefits are paid to your designated beneficiary, they pass free of income tax. However, unless you take the proper estate an… Read More

Kenny Rogers famously crooned, “The most that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.” Unfortunately, while death comes for all of us eventually, we can’t guarantee it will come so painlessly or gently. As difficult as it is to co… Read More

Doctors, attorneys, and other professionals have the capacity to accumulate significant wealth as a result of their specialized and sought-after services. Unfortunately, those professionals are also vulnerable to lawsuits, when the outcome of the ser… Read More

Over 1.4 million people in the United States are in nursing homes. Our population is aging, and about 70 percent of them are expected to need long-term care at some point. Some stays will be brief. On average, care will be needed for three years, but… Read More

You’ve signed your will, funded your trusts, and prepared powers of attorney. You’ve done everything you need to do to provide for your future and the security of your family—or have you? If you are like many people, you’ve forgot… Read More

You’ve heard repeatedly about the benefits of having a living trust as part of your estate plan. You can keep your assets from having to go through probate. You can retain control of assets during your life, and exercise control over how they a… Read More

You’ve probably heard the expression “durable power of attorney,” but do you know what a durable power of attorney involves, and how it differs from a regular power of attorney? Unless you have a power of attorney as part of you est… Read More

Probate is the legal process by which a court formally recognizes that a will is valid and supervises the executor, who carries out the deceased person’s last wishes as explained in the will. If a person dies without a will or estate plan, probate… Read More