Many affluent families believe that their financial affairs are straightforward, leading to frustration over the lack of immediate access to comprehensive financial information for liquidity, budgeting, tax planning, and investment management purposes. In reality, however, many wealthy individuals have more complex financial affairs than they realize,...
A blended family often brings joy — there are more people to love and be loved by. As your family expands, you will want to provide for each child, whether from the previous or current marriage, and create safeguards to avoid future disagreements and potential...
Gerry Turner, the first "Golden Bachelor" and a widower, and his wife, Theresa Nist, a widow, started divorce proceedings just three months after their televised wedding. Their marriage and subsequent divorce emphasize the importance of estate planning in remarriages or domestic partnerships where one or...
It may seem that there will always be time to address estate planning. However, a unique opportunity to maximize the amount of wealth that can be tax-efficiently passed to heirs will expire at the end of 2025....
Additionally, trusts work on behalf of your beneficiaries in your absence. Not all trusts are the same, however....
Ideally, a prenup will be drafted in alignment with the corresponding will. However, in situations in which the two documents are in direct contradiction with one another, courts tend to prioritize the prenup over the will as long as the former document was negotiated fairly...
For some simple estates, all you may need to do is split your assets in equal proportions among heirs. In other instances, however, you have more complex issues to confront....
If you dither and procrastinate over creating even a straightforward will or simple trust, you put the future finances of your family and loved ones in jeopardy. You risk that the assets you have worked for a lifetime to accumulate or protect will not be...
Back in 1913, Woodrow Wilson began his first term as president, and Americans first filed Form 1040s. Right from the beginning, Congress told the IRS to enforce rigid rules for compensation and to forget about gifts. The IRS followed orders....
