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Beneficiaries

Avoid Estate Planning Mistakes

These all-too-common misconceptions can steer your estate plans in the wrong direction right from the start. Here’s how to overcome them and tips to build the right plan for your family.
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Advance Directive

When Do We Need an Elder Law Attorney?

Consult an elder care lawyer preemptively, to avoid making a panicked phone call in the moment.
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Distribution of Estate Assets

How Can Siblings Settle Disputes over an Estate?

Unfortunately, due to hidden resentments, siblings still tend to end up in court suing each other and losing great chunks of their inheritance in the process all too frequently.
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Beneficiary

Can You Distribute Unequal Amounts in an Estate Plan?

For most of us, considering the distribution of the property we have accumulated over our lives is a painful reminder of our mortality.
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Benefits

The Simple Math Behind Social Security Benefits

Should I start collecting Social Security retirement benefits as early as possible, or hold off for longer in exchange for plus-size payments?
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Estate Planning

The Biggest Social Security Blunders in Retirement

Millions of seniors count on Social Security as a major source of retirement income. If you're planning to do the same, you'll need to do your part to avoid reducing your benefits—and that could mean steering clear of the following mistakes.
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Capacity

How Important Is Estate Planning in the Pandemic?

Planning for unfortunate events is particularly critical in the era of Covid-19.
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COVID-19

Will a ‘Will’ Really Pay Off?

A will itself is a legal document that describes the process of splitting up one’s personal property and possessions among family and loved ones.
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Asset Protection

What Do I Look for in a Trustee?

If you decide to leave assets in a trust for your beneficiaries, consider your designation of trustee carefully. The most important person in the trust framework is the trustee, the one responsible for managing trust assets.
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Asset Distribution

What Does an Executor Do?

My aunt recently asked me to be the executor of her will when she dies. I’m flattered that she asked, but I’m not sure what exactly the job entails.

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