Trusts and Estate Planning
Trusts play a big part in estate planning. What you don’t know about them can hurt you and your beneficiaries’ financial health and possibly your own. A trust is a legal entity – just like a corporation or a person. It holds assets for a beneficiary. The beneficiary could be you or another person. A trust document states the [...]
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Right Retirement Advisor Helps Optimize Retirement and Estate Planning
You may be able to achieve more of what you want for retirement than you think. The right retirement advisor, often can help you see implications of your actions, decisions, and wishes and how they impact your retirement and estate planning. But your advisor cannot help you unless he knows what wishes are ultimately on your mind. Retirement planning–in the most [...]
ProspectMatch: Estate Planning Strategies
A New Type of Trust May be Able to Solve Many Estate Planning Problems Many wealthy Americans today are worried about what will happen to their estates after they are gone. Although many different types of trusts have been designed to help alleviate this problem, a new type of trust, called the “inheritor’s trust” has a level of flexibility that [...]
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Americans Wasted $26 Billion in Estate Taxes–Failure to Know Estate Planning Basics
If you don’t want to waste your dollars, its critical that you understand estate tax planning basics and how to avoid estate tax. The Annual Report on the United States Government reports that Americans paid $26 Billion in estate taxes in 2006. Every dime of those taxes could have been avoided. How do you think the kids felt when they [...]
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Retirement & Estate Planning — Often in Competition
One aspect of retirement planning is protecting the assets you have accumulated. Estate planning is also about protecting the assets you have accumulated but comes at the issue of asset protection from a different aspect. For example, in retirement planning, one is concerned with asset allocation–the idea of spreading your money among different asset classes so that a decline in [...]
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Retirement & Estate Planning — Often in Competition
One aspect of retirement planning is protecting the assets you have accumulated. Estate planning is also about protecting the assets you have accumulated but comes at the issue of asset protection from a different aspect. For example, in retirement planning, one is concerned with asset allocation–the idea of spreading your money among different asset classes so that a decline in [...]
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Estate and Trust Planning
A trust serves to separate legal and equitable title. In plain English, this means that a trust holds an asset (any asset like a house, car, or bank account) in the name of one person (called the Trustee), but that the asset is really for the benefit of someone else (called the beneficiary). Why have trust and pursue trust planning? [...]
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Estate/Trust Administration- What’s Involved When Someone Dies
When an individual dies, assets of the decedent may be transferred based on how their titled or a named beneficiary. For example, assets held as joint tenants with right of survivorship pass directly to the other joint owner. Similarly, IRA accounts pass directly to the named beneficiaries as do payable on death accounts, transfer on death property, and most life insurance [...]
Categories: estate planning, trusts, wills Tags: estate/trust administration, probate, trust, will
Estate/Trust Administration- What's Involved When Someone Dies
When an individual dies, assets of the decedent may be transferred based on how their titled or a named beneficiary. For example, assets held as joint tenants with right of survivorship pass directly to the other joint owner. Similarly, IRA accounts pass directly to the named beneficiaries as do payable on death accounts, transfer on death property, and most life insurance [...]
Categories: estate planning, trusts, wills Tags: estate/trust administration, probate, trust, will
Estate Planning Basics – It’s not about Money
Estate planning is not just for the rich. It is for anyone that cares about their heirs. In fact, most aspects of estate planning basics have little to do with money. Estate planning basics do address the eventual and economical distribution of your possessions and authority but more importantly, how you take care of your loved ones. Many of you [...]
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