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Gifts to Your Children or Grandchildren

Gifts to Your Children or Grandchildren–What Could Go Wrong?!

Parents have asked me many times over the years about setting up bank accounts for their kids and setting money aside for them for their future. Their goal, of course, is to create a pot of gold for hard times, something their kid or grandkid can rely on when the going gets tough. What a nice thing to do, right? Wrong. If I had a buzzer, I’d use it. There are few hard and fast rules in...

By Martha J. Hartney, Esq.
June 14, 2013
Giving
Planning for Incapacity

Estate Planning for Unmarried Partners: Ensuring Your Wishes Are Met if You Are Incapacitated

In part one of this two-part article, we explained that proper estate planning is about creating a set of written instructions to specify how you want your property handled after your death and how you want your property and health care decisions handled during any period you may be incapacitated. We also emphasized that while proper planning is important for everyone, it is especially important f...

June 10, 2013
Estate Planning
Estate Planning for Unmarried Couples

Estate Planning for Unmarried Partners: Ensuring Your Wishes Are Met After Your Death

Estate planning is creating a set of instructions that specify how you want your property handled after your death, and how you want your property and health care decisions handled during any period you may be incapacitated. Proper estate planning is important for everyone. But for unmarried partners—opposite sex or same sex—an estate plan is critical. In part one of this two-part arti...

June 3, 2013
Estate Planning

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