Protecting Your Estate: Safeguarding Your Legacy and Future

Protecting Your Estate: Safeguarding Your Legacy and Future

Estate planning is not just about drafting legal documents; it’s about securing your legacy and ensuring your loved ones are taken care of when you can no longer do so yourself. By taking proactive steps today, you can navigate potential threats that could compromise your estate plan and jeopa...

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Understanding Pre-Planning

Understanding Pre-Planning

Before you can become familiar with estate planning, it’s imperative to understand the concept of an estate. Consider everything you own, including your car, home, bank accounts, and even personal possessions. Your estate consists of everything that is legally yours.  When you’re gone, it is in your...

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Why Consider Life Insurance?

Why Consider Life Insurance?

Life insurance is an important policy to have when pre-planning your estate. Chances are, you will have remaining debts and taxes to be paid after death. A qualified policy can help alleviate the financial strain of an emotional family that will already be suffering your loss. If you’re still on the...

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Discuss Your Plan with Family

Discuss Your Plan with Family

When developing your estate plan, it is important to include your loved ones, especially if they will be beneficiaries or trustees. Discussing this sensitive subject can reveal your family’s level of comfortability when left in charge of your assets. Many people are hesitant to begin the conversatio...

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Pre-Planning with Disabled Children

Pre-Planning with Disabled Children

A solid estate plan is necessary for everyone, but parents with disabled children should consider it even more crucial. Do you have a plan in place regarding how your child will be cared for? Without proper planning, a child who is unable to live independently may be at serious risk for injury or le...

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Become an Organ Donor

Become an Organ Donor

When you make a commitment to donate healthy organs or tissue at the time of your death, you positively impact the lives of numerous others. When planning your legacy, it’s easy to have your loved ones at the forefront of your mind, but a simple registration could influence the health of a stranger....

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Seven Advantages of a Transfer-On-Death Deed

Seven Advantages of a Transfer-On-Death Deed

A transfer-on-death deed resembles a normal real estate deed in most ways, but it only takes effect when the current property owner passes away. It provides a convenient and economical way to give your home to an heir. Unlike wills, transfer-on-death deeds don’t need to go through probate cour...

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Your Legacy: Plan Your Estate Today

Your Legacy: Plan Your Estate Today

You are growing older each day. As much of an unwanted reminder that may be, it too comes with the joys and woes you have experienced all throughout your existence.  We all reach an age where we find ourselves inundated by the inevitable. Perhaps this has happened to you when the doctor provided som...

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