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.

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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.

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Principles of Preserving Wealth

How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.

Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart

Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?

Critical Estate Documents

Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.

When Do You Need a Will?

When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

• Articles

  A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes

  An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.

  Will Power

  Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.

  Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage

  Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.

  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."

  Choosing a Business Structure

  Entrepreneurs all face the same question, “Which business structure should I adopt?”

  Succeeding at Business Succession

  There are a number of reasons for business owners to consider a business succession plan sooner rather than later.

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• Calculators

  What's My Potential Estate Tax?

  This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.

  What Is My Current Net Worth?

  Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.

  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.

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• Presentations

  Principles of Preserving Wealth

  How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.

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• Videos

  When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

  A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

  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?

  When Do You Need a Will?

  When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

  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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