Estate Planning: Ensuring Your Legacy
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Deciding how you want to be remembered after you're gone can be one of the most important decisions you make. Do you want your legacy to be judged by your entire life or by a bitter legal battle over your assets? People often avoid the issue of death, but in ...
Estate Planning: An Introduction to your Legacy
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If the controversy over Terri Schiavo showed us anything, it's that estate planning is more important now than ever before. Regardless of personal opinions, in the end, it was Terri who really mattered. And it is your choices and beliefs that matter when it c...
Estate Planning: Avoiding Probate
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When Elvis Presley died, his estate was worth over $10 million dollars1. Then it went through probate. After appraisal costs, legal fees, executor's fees, and estate taxes, "The King's" estate was left with only $3 million.2 Because of improper estate plannin...
Estate Planning: Having Faith in your Legacy
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Discussing death is never a pleasant aspect of financial planning, but it's certainly one of the most important. While no one likes to discuss his or her own mortality, many of us wonder how we'll be remembered. Perhaps you want your legacy to live on through...
Personal Financial Planning : How To Find The Right Estate Planner For You
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Five must-ask questions
(NC)-Beware of estate planners charging little or nothing to draft your estate plan. They are likely earning a commission on the investment products they recommend - which could compromise the objectivity of their advice. And note tha...
Estate Planning: The Key Ingredient
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If you've been keeping up with current events lately, you may have noticed that legal battles seem to take up much of the media's focus. Since the O.J. Simpson trial, media outlets have become frenzied at the thought of a good legal battle. Case in point: Mic...
Estate Planning: Honoring Your Wishes
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Theresa was only 26 years old when she went into cardiac arrest. She fell down in the hallway of her apartment and was rushed to the hospital. She quickly lapsed into a coma, and then spent 15 years of her life in what doctors diagnosed as an irreversible per...
Estate Planning: Supporting a Noble Cause
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Last December, the White House Conference on Aging held its first meeting in 10 years. The conference addressed the growing number of baby boomers reaching retirement and highlighted how a large number of them are contemplating volunteering. More and more ret...
Your Business and Your Estate - Succession Planning
As Penn State professor William Rothwell ominously points out in the forward to Exit Right: A Guided Tour of Succession Planning for Families in Business Together, more than 40% of the people who run the closely held operations that comprise 80% of the North American e...
The Estate Planning Process
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(NC) - How do I begin? Start by making a list of those you wish to remember in your Will. You will want to provide for your dependants first, but here is your chance to be creative. You can give a meaningful item to a favourite relative, honour a friend or a...
Planning is Essential for Any Real Estate Dealings in Australia
Jacqui Smith
If any individual or corporate wants to carry out any kind of property transactions; whether to sell or to buy any property; he has to prepare a master plan for his deal and then only take further action. As we know, buying or selling a property needs a di...
Planning Your Real Estate Investments
Craig Higdon
The holidays are rapidly approaching and I've managed to do most of my Christmas cards and gifts on time this year! I still have a few to go, but for me most of the pre-holiday madness is over. It is now time to focus on a strategic plan for next year an...
Practicality In Real Estate Planning
Jon Caldwell
One of the biggest mistakes a seller can make is putting the wrong price tag on his or her home. Sellers tend to put a very high value on their property out of fear of losing profit, but buyers won't even look at homes that are priced too high. There's no ...
Financial Planning Services: You Can Manage Your Finance Well
Anton Kadin
You might seek the genuine advice of a reliable friend regarding the matters of finance at any stage of your life. It is really important and most of the times beneficial also. You must manage your finances well so that you can enjoy its fruits and for that...
Planning And Putting Up With Commercial Estates
Jon Caldwell
When we talk about estates, whether it be commercial or not, it basically involves a lot of people and things. Your property or estate is of course involved above everything else. With this in mind, it is highly advised that you plan ahead, otherwise, you ...
