• Administration expenses can be deducted

• Frequently Asked Questions About Wills, Living Wills and Powers of Attorney

• Estate Planning and Insurance Concerns When You Divorce

• Inheritance taxes explained

• Life Insurance - One more step on the insurance ladder

• Estate Planning And The Revocable Living Trust

• Your Yearly Living Trust Review

• Last Will And Testament Considerations

• What's New With Your Living Trust?

• Inheritance in O/R Mapping

• What is Unclaimed Inheritance? Am I owed Any?

• Retirement Planning May Drive the Decision to Buy Annuities, But Estate Planning and Inheritances Drive Many to Sell

• What Is An Inheritance Tax And When Is It Applied?

• When is the return due?

• Estate Planning Overview , Part II

• 6 Reasons Why You Should Have A Living Trust

• Estate planning basics

• Estate Planning Pitfall: Why the Wealthy Hire Estate Planning Attorneys

• Taking Control; Safeguarding the Distribution of Your Assets by Making A Will

• Estate Planning Basics

• Inheritance Tax, A Concise Guide

• Should I hire to represent me and prepare and file the return?

• Estate Planning & Living Trust Information

• Living Will - Why you need one now!

• Why, What and When You Need Estate Planning

• Estate Planning

• Protect Your Legacy with Trusts

• The New Rage: Incentive Trusts

• Your Last Will And Testament: How And Where To Get Your Final Directives Formalized

• Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorneys Help to Make Sure Your Wishes are Met

• Getting Your Affairs in Order: A Guide to Living Wills

• The Living Will

• What is the Estate Tax?

• Is Estate Planning for Everyone?

• Fair Market Value of an Estate

• How to Find the Best Estate Planning Attorney for Your Family

• An Estate Planning Primer

• Second Marriages - Estate Planning Concerns

• Boomers Get Less Inheritance: Get Creative to Afford Retirement Homes

• Living Will Is An Answer To A Problem

• What Is An Inheritance Tax And When Is It Applied?

• Last Will And Testament Considerations

• Estate planning basics

• When To Fund Your Living Trust - Part I

• The New Rage: Incentive Trusts

• The New Rage: Incentive Trusts
  
  Today's baby boomers want more out of their estate planning than just passing along an inheritance to their children. They also want to pass along their values - and they're using incentive trusts to do...

• What's New With Your Living Trust?
  
  Some time ago, Congress made certain changes to the estate taxes. As a result of the changes, effective January, 2004, the tax free amount increased to $1,500,000. (Back in 1997 it was $600,000.) This...

• The New Rage: Incentive Trusts
  
  Today's baby boomers want more out of their estate planning than just passing along an inheritance to their children. They also want to pass along their values - and they're using incentive trusts to do...

• Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorneys Help to Make Sure Your Wishes are Met
  
  No one can foresee problems that may arise should he become incapacitated. Yet, you can avoid negative consequences of unforeseen problems by creating Living Wills and Healthcare Power of Attorneys (HCPOA)....

• Administration expenses can be deducted
  
  Expenses of administering an estate can be deducted either from the gross estate in figuring the federal estate tax on Form 706 , United States Estate (and Generation-Skipping Transfer) Tax Return, or...

• Your Last Will And Testament: How And Where To Get Your Final Directives Formalized
  
  A growing number of men and women have come to recognize the indisputable importance of making sure that their affairs will be in order when they pass on, when they die. As a consequence, a growing number...

• What is the Estate Tax?
  
  The Estate Tax is a tax on your right to transfer property at your death. It consists of an accounting of everything you own or have certain interests in at the date of death. The fair market value of...

• How to Find the Best Estate Planning Attorney for Your Family
  
  The importance of proper estate planning need not be stressed. When you hear the word estate, it refers to everything you worked hard for. Your home, money in bank accounts, investments in stocks, mutual...

• Estate Planning And The Revocable Living Trust
  
  What is a revocable living trust?
  
  According to Plan-My-Estate.com - With a Revocable Living Trust, you transfer the title of any of your assets (such as a house) from yourself as an individual, to yourself...

• Estate Planning Overview , Part II
  
  Your Durable Power of Attorney For most people, the durable power of attorney is the most important estate-planning instrument available-even more useful than a will. A power of attorney allows a person...

• What is the road like to financial freedom and what are the obstacles?
  
  Image a motorway. Nice smooth tarmac, easy flowing traffic and able to get you where you want effectively.What happens when there are traffic jams, road works, or a queue of traffic? It slows us down.Did...

• Why, What and When You Need Estate Planning
  
  Sitting down with a financial advisor to plan the transfer of all of your personal assets upon the event of your death to your chosen beneficiaries is called estate planning. Successfully planning your...

• Should I hire to represent me and prepare and file the return?
  
  There are several factors to consider: 1. How complex is the estate? By the time most estates reach $1,000,000, there is usually some complexity involved. 2. How large is the estate? 3. In what condition...

• Charitable Planning, Estate Planning, Planned Giving and Life Insurance
  
  Without getting into too much detail, if your estate is of sufficient size - $5 million plus - to be concerned about estate planning there are unique planning ideas that can help you and your family minimize...

• Estate Planning Pitfall: Why the Wealthy Hire Estate Planning Attorneys
  
  Many estate planning clients put a lot of time, energy and money into structuring their estate plans in light of the uncertainties in our estate tax laws. These more complicated tax-motivated estate plans...

• Retirement Planning May Drive the Decision to Buy Annuities, But Estate Planning and Inheritances Drive Many to Sell
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJ.G. Wentworth Analysis:Retirement Planning May Drive the Decision to Buy Annuities, But Estate Planning and Inheritances Drive Many to Sell The annuity's inherent illiquidity complicates...

• Fair Market Value of an Estate
  
  Fair Market Value is defined as: "The fair market value is the price at which the property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither being under any compulsion to buy or...

• The Living Will
  
  A living will is not about who inherits your stocks and bonds when you die and it doesn't designate who gets the family home or your mother's jewelry. What a living will does is establish your wishes about...

• When is the return due?
  
  Generally, the estate tax return is due nine months after the date of death. A six month extension is available if requested prior to the due date and the estimated correct amount of tax is paid before...

• Estate planning basics
  
  Greek philosopher Heraclitus had remarked that 'you cannot step into the same river twice' i.e. time will never be the same... 'Change' is the only constant factor and 'Death' is the only certain thing...

• Inheritance in O/R Mapping
  
  Object oriented applications usually have inheritance as an important part of their design, including in their domain objects. However, the corresponding data model has no built-in mechanism for specifying...

• Inheritance Tax, A Concise Guide
  
  With ever-increasing property prices, more and more people's assets are now worth more than the inheritance tax threshold of £285,000, which has never been increased in proportion to the recent property...

• Estate Planning and Insurance Concerns When You Divorce
  
  If you are getting a divorce from your spouse, you have a lot of planning to do. You will need to name your own beneficiaries, organize your divided assets, and set up your individual estate. It is important...

• The Revokable Trust: Is it Really Revocable?
  
  The revokable trust, really spelled as the revocable trust, or the revocable living trust, but many refer to as the revokable trust or the revokable living trust, is a very popular and common estate planning...

• When To Fund Your Living Trust - Part I
  
  I have received a number of emails lately about funding a living trust. It's a question that seems to confuse a lot of people because there appears to be several right answers. And, there are several right...

• What Is An Inheritance Tax And When Is It Applied?
  
  When an individual passes, on the federal government imposes an estate tax. This estate tax only applies to estate properties that are over one million fifty thousand dollars. The federal government is...

• What is included in the Estate?
  
  The Gross Estate of the decedent consists of an accounting of everything you own or have certain interests in at the date of death. The fair market value of these items is used, not necessarily what...

• Living Trusts: Do They Protect Your Assets From Creditors?
  
  A surprising number of readers want to know "Can a living trust protect my family's assets from creditors and lawsuits?" I think there are some promoters out there that use this as a pitch to get people...

• Estate Planning
  
  Estate planning can enable you to control your property while you are alive, take care of you and your loved ones if you become disabled, and give what you have to whom you want, the way you want, and...

• Living Will Is An Answer To A Problem
  
  For many people, Terri Schiavo was the face of an emotional struggle over the right to live and the right to die. It sparked a heated global debate and inspired even the most apolitical citizens to take...

• Taking Control; Safeguarding the Distribution of Your Assets by Making A Will
  
  The Importance of Making a Will A valid will is one of the most important documents you could ever put your signature to, as the consequences of failing to make a will before you die can have far-reaching...

• An Estate Planning Primer
  
  An estate is the total value of everything we own--and business and personal assets can add up quickly. Everyone has an estate. And realize it or not, everyone also has an estate plan. An estate plan can...

• Inheritance taxes explained
  
  Reduce inheritance taxes by giving gifts!The inheritance tax is the same thing as the estate tax in the United States, but with a different name depending on the country that you are talking about. The...

• Estate Planning for Santa Claus
  
  What if Santa and Mrs. Claus decided to do an estate plan? Although they would doubtless be great clients, the actual plan could be a challenge. What is the size of the Claus estate? It is extremely hard...

• Last Will And Testament Considerations
  
  Interest in a Last Will and Testament and other end of life planning documents skyrocketed during the coverage of Terri Schiavo's case, but interest didn't always lead to action. It isn't that people laugh...

• Last Will And Testament Considerations
  
  Interest in a Last Will and Testament and other end of life planning documents skyrocketed during the coverage of Terri Schiavo's case, but interest didn't always lead to action. It isn't that people laugh...

• Life Insurance - One more step on the insurance ladder
  
  The recently over 60's are the post-war baby boomers. Their insurance needs are very different from that of a young family or someone just starting out in their first job.A typical 60 something couple...

• Living Will - Why you need one now!
  
  Living Will - Why it's critical that you have one! A Living Will is a legal document that allows you to direct healthcare professionals to act on your behalf regarding life-sustaining intervention and...

• Is Estate Planning for Everyone?
  
  Many people think they dont need an estate plan. They relate the term to tax planning and feel that their estate is not big enough to bother. They therefore think estate planning has nothing to do with...

• Legal Wills In America - A Top Priority
  
  For most of us, life is hectic and we often put important issues such as preparing a legal will on the back burner. It is not a topic that most people like to think about, but the reality of having a legal...

• 6 Reasons Why You Should Have A Living Trust
  
  If you've ever thought about a living trust, it's probably because you hate the idea of going through probate. Living trusts have been heavily marketed on that basis over the past several years and, yes,...

• Say what? You Don't Have An Estate Plan . . . !
  
  If you haven't taken the time to prepare your estate plan, you're not alone. According to a survey conducted by FindLaw.com, a whopping 55% of Americans haven't even taken the time to have a will prepared,...

• What is Unclaimed Inheritance? Am I owed Any?
  
  Are you aware there is over $35 BILLION in unclaimed money in the United States and some of it is unclaimed inheritance. This article will tell you what unclaimed inheritance is and how to find out if...

• Inheritance taxes explained
  
  Reduce inheritance taxes by giving gifts!
  The inheritance tax is the same thing as the estate tax in the United States, but with a different name depending on the country that you are talking about. The...

• Second Marriages - Estate Planning Concerns
  
  One of the biggest areas of dispute in estate planning is with second marriages. Here is a question I received. Ive changed the facts around so that I am not giving specific legal advice. Phil, My dad,...