Developing Your Estate Plan

You've spent years growing your wealth and building your estate, so it is just good sense to plan to protect your assets and pass them on to your beneficiaries according to your wishes. When you're ready to sit down and develop an estate plan, keep these tips in mind.

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.

What is Your Legacy?

How will you be remembered when you are gone?

Protecting Your Child: Setting Up a Special Needs Trust

Setting up a Special Needs Trust for children with disabilities.

Powers Of Attorney Vs. Successor Trustees - Does One Have More Power Than The Other

Question: I am listed as the Successor trustee, my bother is listed as the Durable Power of Attorney for property management of my father's estate. Does one have more power than the other. Does the POA have the power to sell my dad's property or do I the successor? Thanks ahead of time - really confused. N.H.

Some Simple Strategies For Protecting Your Assets

There are many small steps to take that will add up to big savings in the end. If you value the assets you have accumulated, or if you feel you should be accumulating more, take this advice and make some minor changes.

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.

What Is A Protective Property Trust-And Why Should I Consider One?

There is a way of making sure that your relatives will inherit something in the event of the surviving partner having to go into care.

Setting Up a Special Needs Trust for a Disabled Relative

Many of us have a family member or close relative with a disability. We'd like to leave a portion of our estate to help this family member but are unsure how best to do this. Should we just make an outright gift? What about a trust? This article takes a look at some of the options.

Estate Planning and Trusts

What are estate planning and trusts? What are the differences between federal death (estate) taxes and state probate and death taxes? Explains the relationships of property, insurance, pensions and IRAs and estate taxes.

What is Values-Based Wealth Planning?

No one over age 18 today will live to see the end of the 21st Century. The legacy you leave your children will be reflected in the values they learn about the role of money and property. Here are ways to plan that give your heirs a perspective that extends far beyond the dollar value of what you pass on to them by way of a financial inheritance.

Anna Nicole Smith Dies Without a Will - What's a Will? What's a Trust?

Anna Nicole Smith dies without a will. Without a will and a trust Anna Nicole Smith leaves behind many unsettled legal issues including paternal rights to her baby daughter, unsettled case against her late Husband's estate Howard Marshall II. What's a Will? Why is a Will not enough? What are Trusts? What happens at the death of someone with only a Will?

How to Find the Best Estate Planning Attorney for Your Family

The importance of proper estate planning need not be stressed. When you hear the word estate, it refers to everything you worked hard for. Your home, money in bank accounts, investments in stocks, mutual funds and bonds, cars, life insurance, business and others. Without proper estate planning, your beneficiaries will most likely be inconvenienced with all the requirements in settling your estate.

Asset protection with Joint Tenancy, Tenancy in Common, Tenancy in Entirety & Community Property

Protecting assets by Joint Tenancy, Tenants in Common, Tenancy in Entirety or Community Property have many disadvantages. Loss of step-up in basis upon the death of the first Tenant; loss of estate tax protection; possible exposure of the assets; Joint Tenancy disinherits all other heirs; possibility of a gift tax consequence; Joint Tenancy supersedes any trust with the loss of all trust benefits.

What Would Happen If You Got Sued? Can't Happen To You? Think Again! You Need Asset Protection

Sadly this could happen to you: The doorbell rings and a courier arrives with a package for you to sign. What could it be? A gift from someone? You sign and open the box to find you have been served. The mailman tripped and hit his head which led to a stroke. His family is now suing you for 18 million dollars. Your home insurance policy only covers personal injury up to 7 million. Your in big trouble. What started out as a great day has now become the beginning of a nightmare. Your assets including your home are at risk. Sadly this coiuld havppen to you. It happens thousands of times each day! Courts are filled with these types of cases every day. I personally know the head of a large law firm that only handles these type of cases. Its a big business. Now here's the kicker: These lawyers work on comission. The party filing the lawsuit pays nothing and the lawyers are like hungry dogs. Nipping and knawing at you. Dragging you into court for this and that. All the time you have to pay a lawyer ungodly sums of money to just defend yourself. The nightmare doesn't seem to end. Then when they have you sweating they start the settlement proceedings. All the time you are paying your lawyer. If if you win, you loose! Do you risk loosing everything or do you settle?