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Estate Planning

4 mistakes to avoid when creating a will

Estate planning protects your loved ones should you become incapacitated or die. However, its benefits can be limited if you make mistakes. All documents in your plan, including the will, should be drafted correctly to avoid issues like contests. Here are four...

7 duties of an executor

Appointing an executor for your estate plan is crucial. You need to name a reliable executor - someone you trust, be it a family member or a close friend. It may help to have more than one - a primary and an alternate. The latter will perform the duties of the primary...

What if your heir struggles with a drug problem?

There are some cases in which people would like to leave their assets to a specific heir, but they worry that the heir may have habits or behaviors that will be detrimental to their future.  For example, perhaps you have three children, and two of them are financially...

What are the benefits of a trust?

In your estate plan, you may designate heirs to inherit your assets. This may mean giving your spouse the house and savings, your children your car and heirlooms and maybe even a friend or distant relative something special. However, using a will to allocate assets to...

Blended families and estate planning

Estate planning can be complicated enough when you’re just dealing with one family. But when you have a blended family, essentially mixing two families together after a second marriage, it gets to be very complex. It also increases the odds that your heirs will...

The basic elements of any estate plan

Passing away without an estate plan means you relinquish quite a bit of control over your assets and affairs. If you become incapacitated before your death without certain documents and plans established, someone else will make all your medical decisions, and it may...

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