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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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?

Managing an Inheritance
A windfall from a loved one can be both rewarding and complicated.

Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families
This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.
Trends in Charitable Giving
Some people may want a more advanced gifting strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits.
Succeeding at Business Succession
There are a number of reasons for business owners to consider a business succession plan sooner rather than later.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
White Elephant Inheritance
This article deals with how one might deal with a burdensome inheritance.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
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What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
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's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
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When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
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 Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
This video covers 4 elements of an estate strategy.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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