A 2021 Wills and Estate Planning Study of 2,400 Americans by Caring.com with YouGov finds that since 2019 the percentage of Americans aged fifty-five and older who have created a will has decreased from 60 to 44 percent. This decrease is as surprising a statistic as the increase of younger adults who now are sixty-three percent more likely […]
Assembling the right professional team to create your estate plan can provide you with the best advice and legal documentation to protect your legacy for your heirs. Aside from an estate planning attorney, who often specializes in elder law, you may need the services of a certified public accountant (CPA) and possibly even an insurance
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Entrepreneurs share specific characteristics: motivation, creativity, persuasiveness, risk tolerance, versatility, vision, innovation, communication and collaboration, flexibility, and decisiveness. These individuals create new businesses bearing most of the risks and reaping most of the rewards if successful. Because of their innate attributes, an estate planning process can be markedly different from others because entrepreneurs often have
The truth is none of us know the future. Significant uncertainty abounds as to the outcomes of US tax legislation proposals. Estate and gift tax exemptions may get cut in half or not, and whatever happens will likely affect all deaths and transfers of wealth after December 31, 2021. Whatever the outcome, there are still
The drama, the cost, the lost time, the broken relationships – there are so many ways that family feuds and estate planning during end-of-life care for a parent and inheritance can have serious repercussions when these problems reach the status of a legal filing and court case. You can take steps moving beyond the possibility