When it comes to real estate and estate planning, there are many different options available to you. In real estate, you could find land for a mobile home or rent a space. You could buy a home, or take out a loan for one. As well as using your home to finance other endeavors. You
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No one wants to worry while on vacation, particularly about matters regarding estate planning. But by following a few suggestions, you can embark on your well-deserved rest worry-free, confident that every detail regarding your family’s security is attended to. Here are four estate planning items to wipe from your to-do list before stepping in the
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When all is said and done, estate planning is most often thought of as a way to secure your assets for future generations. When people think “estate planning,” they think of wills and trusts, drafted to make the most of what you have after you pass away, so that your family can preserve your financial
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Estate planning exists to prevent estates from going up in smoke throughout the process of transferring wealth after death. What is meant to be a time of grief and peace can turn into legal turmoil, familial subterfuge, and substantial amounts of time and money wasted. Estate disputes can fuel these spectacular losses, turning a routine
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The time to start estate planning for the inevitable is not when you have retired, but when your life as an adult truly begins. We are all saddled with legal, personal, and financial responsibilities from our early 20s and onwards, from the right to vote and drink, manage our own financial decisions, and being held
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A trust is only as valuable to you as what you are funding into it. Trusts in estate planning exist for the explicit purpose of providing an alternative to wills, and the probate process attached to them. If one disregards probate, then a trust confers minor benefits over a will, which is often deemed simpler
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If you have ever consulted with a professional estate planner, then you may know what it takes to set up a good estate plan. From ensuring that the wording on your will is precise, to choosing a good successor trustee/executor, to drafting and creating a trust applicable to your estate needs and wants – it
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Most see estate planning as a necessity for families – to determine where your hard-earned wealth and assets will go after you pass away. That said, estate planning should not be restricted to parents and grandparents. Believe it or not, estate planning is something even the never-married should consider. Estate planning tools do not require
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Estate planning is meant to give you a sense of control over where the wealth you have cultivated over a lifetime will go once you pass on. While historically, people with great fortunes often believed being buried with their treasures would give them a better afterlife, we know that our material possessions are not much
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Central to the core of inheritance is our desire to leave our financial legacy to our children and grandchildren. A life filled with ambition, mistakes, successes, and hard work can pave the way to much wealth and fortune – but there is no way to enjoy any of that after we have passed on, and
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