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.
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.
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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
13 Key Moments to Ensure Your Plan is Keeping Up With You
13 Key Moments to Make Sure Your Financial Plan is Keeping Up With You
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Trends in Charitable Giving
Some people may want a more advanced gifting strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits.
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
Why Everyone Needs an Estate Strategy
Do you have an estate strategy? You should.
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."
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
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Comparing Mortgage Terms
Compare different mortgage term lengths side by side to find the option that fits your budget.
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4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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.
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