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.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
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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.
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."
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Estate Planning Checklist
A comprehensive estate plan is vital for families with significant assets. The checklist can help ensure nothing is left out.
Estate Management Checklist
Is your estate in order? This short quiz may help you assess your overall strategy.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
Managing the Risk of Outliving Your Money
Steps to help you sustain and grow your retirement savings.
Planning Your Legacy & Your Family’s Financial Future
Leave a legacy and plan for your family's financial future. Arrange your affairs and find ways to pass on your wealth.
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What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
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.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
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