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5 Most Common Mistakes in Naming Beneficiaries | Werner Law Firm

5 Most Common Mistakes in Naming Beneficiaries

POSTED ON: March 19, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
Your last will and testament is a document designed to give certain courts and your family directions on how you would like your estate to be distributed in the event of your passing. It gives you the power to determine what will finally happen with your property when you are gone, giving you one final […]
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Good Living Trust Decision-Making Has Lasting Financial Impact | Werner Law Firm

Good Living Trust Decision-Making Has Lasting Financial Impact

POSTED ON: March 8, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
Estate planning can be a complicated subject. For some, their options are simple and straightforward. But there are factors that can quickly convolute a simple and straightforward topic into a matter of much research and heavy debate. In the case of estate planning, the two major factors include the nature and size of your estate, […]
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Protect Your Loved Ones From the Burdens of Probate | Werner Law Firm

Protecting Your Loved Ones From the Burdens of Probate

POSTED ON: March 5, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
When we are confronted with the death of a loved one, the last thing we want to think about is a mountain of paperwork. Yet for many Americans, passing away is not just a tragedy, but a tragedy followed by a trail of legal complications. Most Americans lack a proper estate plan. These are simple […]
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Families Advised to Have the Inheritance Conversation - Before It's Needed | Werner Law Firm

Families Advised to Have the Inheritance Conversation

POSTED ON: February 28, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
As long as life can feel sometimes, many things are left unsaid. We bite our tongue and hold our words and hold back our feelings time and time again, thinking back to those moments in times of regret. But at the time, there is always one or more seemingly good reasons for avoiding a certain […]
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The New U.S. Tax Law Must-Knows | Werner Law Firm

The New U.S. Tax Law Must-Knows

POSTED ON: February 26, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
The new Republican 2018 US tax law has fought a political battle to be here, and has seen much opposition and criticism by both the public and select economists, but the pessimism surrounding the GOP’s new tax law is unfounded and may even be misleading. Regardless of whether you cash in your checks or run […]
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Why Having a Living Trust Is Wise, Especially in California | Werner Law Firm

Why Having a Living Trust Is Wise, Especially in California

POSTED ON: February 19, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
Anything you have to your name must go somewhere after your death – and for individuals who want the ability to choose where that is, tools exist that offer several different options. These estate planning tools are sometimes seen as instruments of the super-rich, meant to maintain their wealth and cut minimally into their fortune. […]
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Moving From Probate & Property Confusion to Clarity | Werner Law Firm

Moving From Probate & Property Confusion to Clarity

POSTED ON: February 12, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
It is rare to be able to emotionally prepare for someone’s passing – and it is even rarer to truly feel like you are prepared at all when it happens. Most of the time, a person’s death comes as an unexpected shock, no matter how likely it may have seemed – and for the family, […]
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Living Trusts: You’ve Been Appointed Successor Trustee – Now What? | Werner Law Firm

Living Trusts: You’ve Been Appointed Successor Trustee – Now What?

POSTED ON: February 5, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
In the estate planning world, a living trust is considered a powerful and versatile tool. Through it, a person can assign beneficiaries to their wealth and property, and plan ahead to create their own administration process without a probate court watching. The trustee creates and oversees the trust. The successor trustee is the person the […]
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How Often Should Living Trusts Be Updated? - Werner Law Firm

How Often Should Living Trusts Be Updated?

POSTED ON: January 29, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
Revocable living trusts are renowned for being the better alternative to a last will and testament, because of a myriad of estate planning features, the greatest of which is the ability to skip past the probate process. But just like a will must be updated to reflect life’s major changes and deal with unexpected events, […]
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The State of Estate Planning | Werner Law Firm

The State of Estate Planning

POSTED ON: January 24, 2018 BY: Troy Werner
There are two major issues facing estate planning today: first, most people who interest themselves with estate planning do so later on in life, despite the fact that there are many benefits to informing yourself and being prepared on matters of inheritance as soon as you have something to pass onto your loved ones, and […]
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