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Teaching by Example: How to Foster Financial Responsibility With Your Children
One of your jobs as a parent is to teach your children healthy habits. This includes eating well and staying active as well as healthy emotional management and, of course, financial responsibility. When kids are young, the latter is often facilitated by a small...
18 Years Old & All Grown Up! Time for Them to Take Over Their Estate Plan and Update Yours
We’ve written on this subject before but there’s no overstating the need to impress upon adult children the importance of planning for the future. Estate planning begins as soon as a person reaches the age of majority and it doesn’t end until you meet your maker. As...
Inheritance Trusts: Setting Your Loved Ones Up for Security
Anyone with children knows the worry of what will happen to them when you’re gone. After all, even sturdy, successful kids can be knocked off their feet which is why many parents try to leave a cushion in the form of an inheritance. Doing so means building a financial...
Setting Goals: How to Get That Beach House
There’s nothing like the summer heat to get you dreaming about that beach house and yet without setting goals, dreaming is as close as you will ever get. Unless you are among the very lucky few who inherit substantial wealth, checking off bucket list aspirations...
Building Wealth: Creating Financial Security for All
Financial security is important for everyone. Not everyone gets there via the same path, however. Differing personal and economic circumstances mean building wealth comes differently to different people. This is why it is important to work with a financial and estate...
The Benefits of Hard Work: How Having an Estate Plan Now Will Provide More Ease Later
The Ants and the Grasshopper is among Aesop’s most well-known and controversial fables. Writers and philosophers across history have retold, reframed, and debated the moral of the story. Is the grasshopper a bon vivant who has failed the grasp the value of hard work?...
Business Owners New and Seasoned All Need A Business Succession Plan
Business owners are no stranger to the need for security. In the present day and age enterprises face a growing number of vulnerabilities. Protecting your valuables is no longer a simple matter of safe storage and locking your doors. Intruders now have many points of...
From NFTs to Cryptocurrency: The Best Way to Protect Digital Assets
Bitcoin may have lost more than 50% of its value since its peak in November but that doesn’t mean cryptocurrency or related assets are losing popularity. Last year was a breakthrough year not just for crypto, but for NFTs, Coinbase stocks, crypto mining, and a long...
Understanding Estate Taxes: Four Major Types of Taxes to Know About
While it is said that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes, this isn’t usually meant to say that the two occur simultaneously. If you’re not careful about estate taxes, however, you may well suffer this double whammy. Estate taxes (and their cousin,...
What Does Tax Time Have to Do with My Estate Plan and Where Does an Estate Planning Attorney Fit In?
It’s April, which means the weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and all the joy this could cause is tainted by the fact that taxes are soon due. Yes, April is a month of split character. You love it and you hate it. With proper tax planning, this...
Spring Cleaning Is More Than Just Cleaning Windows: 4 Steps to Cleaning Up Your Estate Plan
Daylight savings is now behind us and spring is officially in the air. As winter thaws, trees start to regain their foliage, and the first tulips begin peeking out, the world feels flush with energy. New life is everywhere and with it, newfound motivation. Spring is...
Revocable Trusts & Irrevocable Trusts: How to Know What is Right for Your Planning Needs
I met with my longtime client Stan to review his planning. Stan is a widower and his daughter, Anna, is his only child and sole beneficiary. His assets are well below the estate tax threshold. He has retirement savings, personal property, and a house. During our...
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