Believe it or not, you have an estate. In fact, nearly everyone does. Your estate is comprised of everything you own— your car, home, other real estate, checking and savings accounts, investme...
How WealthCounsel Attorneys Make a Difference. According to WealthCounsel’s 2010 Industry Trends Survey of estate planning professionals, nearly 70% of respondents indicated that Americans fai...
No one likes to think about the possibility of their own disability or the disability of a loved one. However, as we'll see below, the statistics are clear that we should all plan for at least a te...
You probably own some items of real or sentimental value (jewelry, antiques, art, heirlooms, furniture, clothing, etc.) that you want a certain child, grandchild, special friend, relative, or organ...
Online legal document services offer an enticing bargain. Most people realize that they need an estate plan to manage their affairs if something happens to them. And, let’s face it, estate planning attorneys are expensive. That’s why many consumers are now questioning whether it’s possible to skip the attorney fees and use a low-cost website to prepare estate planning documents. T...
The earliest images I have of family are from when I was a kid. Smells coming out of the kitchen. My mom cooking for days. She would always cooking it seemed like. A lot of things I experienced when I was very young really impacted me later on as things happened in the family and as the transition occurred, it was different. Things that were important to me, stayed with me. And I sort of convey th...
In first marriages, the couple generally has the same goals when it comes to their estate planning: take care of the surviving spouse for as long as he or she lives, then whatever is left will go to the children. They may own many of their assets jointly and, at the death of the first spouse, more than likely everything will go to the surviving spouse just as they had planned. But second marr...
Estate planning is for people of all ages.
WealthCounsel/Trusts & Estates 2011 Industry Trends Survey
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