Estate
Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
And the Executor Is
The right executor may help ensure the distribution of your assets is done with as little upheaval as possible.
What is the Value of Your Business?
Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.
Are You Prepared for an Estate Tax Sunset?
The federal estate tax exemption sunsets in 2025. Learn more about what to do to make the most of the higher threshold.
Four Steps to Valuing an Estate
Determining the value of your estate, or for someone who has passed away, can be a complex undertaking.
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
Trends in Charitable Giving
Some people may want a more advanced gifting strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits.
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What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?