Special Needs Children Need a Special Needs Trust

Many parents worry about providing for a child with emotional, physical or mental challenges as they grow up. If the child is receiving government benefits, careful planning can provide for the child without disrupting your own retirement planning or the flow of government paid benefits for the child after you're gone.

Financial & Estate Planning For the Dual Income Family

In today's world, it is more common than ever to find dual income households. Recent estimates by the Department of Labor find that women comprise around 47 percent of the American workforce. Compare this percentage to 1960 accounts estimating women in the workplace at around 33 percent. Because of the proliferation of working women, special planning is necessary to properly address the issues faced by households where both spouses work.

Asset Protection - Why Do You Need It

With your growing financial portfolio and asset, it is imperative that you take steps to protect your assets. A practical solution for creating an additional umbrella of security for your family is to take advantage of asset protection that minimize the risk of losing your assets or being taxed heavily.

Estate Planning: Make Sure Your Wishes are Honored

A medical power of attorney and living will are crucial estate planning steps, and like long term care insurance, must be set in place early in life for optimal protection.

Planning Ahead For Your Senior Years

When the diagnosis is Alzheimer's disease, the ability to manage your own affairs will decrease over time. Making adequate, informed decisions about your personal business and your health will become more difficult. But, early legal planning lets you choose a person to manage these things for you, according to your wishes.

Estate Planning ... Not Just For The Wealthy

You've worked hard, accumulated assets, and been diligent in saving for a comfortable retirement. Now it is important to implement a plan to protect those assets in the event something were to happen to you.

Corporate Kit Estate Binders

Corporate kit estate binders help to keep everything in one place. Corporate binders usually have important material related to a public or private company, which includes a minute book, share certificate, common seal, stock ledgers, etc. All of these things are kept in a well-built, turned-edge, D-ring minute book binder engraved with the company name. This is a corporate kit binder.

Beneficiary Controlled Trust Fact Sheet

As middle class estates get larger, and the divorce rate grows, more and more financial planners are utilizing beneficiary controlled trusts to pass inheritance on to future generations without loss to the beneficiary's creditors, ex-spouses, or even the IRS.

Charitable Remainder Trusts: Preserving Your Estate

Charitable Remainder Trusts: Preserving Your Estate Financial and estate planning ensure that a person's assets and property will be put to the greatest use during life, and to the beneficiary's best use after death. Too bad that studies show that relatively few people actually adopt such a plan.

Estate Planning for Parents

Few groups have more need of estate planning than parents. Without a plan, parents will have no say about to whom their children will go or how their children will be cared for if they are orphaned.

New Cyprus Residents - Make Sure You Know Who Will Inherit Your Estate

In an earlier article, author Michael Yates drew attention to the need to review assets and the manner in which they are held in order to escape liability to inheritance tax in the United Kingdom. The key lies in domicile, even more so after the British Government's decision to tax the most basic of estate planning arrangements. So what is domicile?

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Estate Tax Planning

Estate tax is the levy by the government against the taxable estate of a deceased person. Taxable estate means gross estate reduced by allowable deductions. Gross estate means total estate comprising the value of all assets owned by the deceased at the time of death. IRS determines taxable estate by subtracting from gross estate certain allowable deductions like funeral expenses paid out of the estate, debts outstanding at the time of death, estate administration expenses, charitable, marital, and deductions

Offshore Trust - Effective Estate Planning, You Decide

An over view of offshore trusts as part of viable estate planning and the fear that keeps many clients and attorneys from knowing more about how to use them effectively

Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorneys Help to Make Sure Your Wishes are Met

No one can foresee problems that may arise should he become incapacitated. Yet, you can avoid negative consequences of unforeseen problems by creating Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorneys (HCPOA).