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If you’re like most people with enough assets to provide a healthy inheritance to your children and other loved ones, you hope it will give them financial security and more opportunities. You don’t want it to cause them anxiety and guilt. Nonetheless, increasingly,...
End-of-life plans help to communicate your wishes in case you become incapacitated and can’t articulate your needs and preferences yourself. You need to engage in this kind of planning regarding medical care, at minimum. Planning for medical care in the event of...
You’ve probably heard of people having their identities stolen after they’re dead. This often involves using people’s identifying information (and sometimes actual documents) to open credit cards, bank accounts and more. These identity thieves are known as “ghosters.”...
One conundrum of estate planning some Georgia residents face is how to protect certain heirs from blowing through their inheritances and winding up broke or in other dire straits. The fact is that some individuals just are poor money managers. Maybe they never learned...
If you have read much about guardianship, you’ll know it can be problematic. There have been some terrible cases where an elder adult’s guardian has abused their power and stripped away assets for their own benefit. They have often consigned their charge to a...
You must remember to keep your estate plan up to date. A quick check once every year or so can confirm whether you need to make adjustments, but some life changes are so significant they automatically merit an update. Here are four of them: 1. You have a child On...
Creating a comprehensive estate plan is a primary consideration for adults. One estate planning tool that some people use alongside other helpful estate planning resources is a trust. There are two primary types of trusts – revocable trusts, which can be changed but...
Most people leave the majority of their things to family members when they die. While hardly anyone will be upset about receiving a cheque from your estate, some may be less thrilled about certain items you plan to leave them. Your loved ones are unlikely to have...
You might assume most people have an estate plan. You’d me wrong. A 2024 survey by Caring.com found that 68% of U.S. adults have no estate plan in place, and 40% of those who don’t have one think they don’t own enough to need one. That’s a dangerous fallacy, and if...
You can only make a will with the knowledge you have at that precise point in time. A lot can change with time, and at some point, you may need to alter your will to reflect your new reality. For example, if you marry or divorce, have a child or lose a beneficiary,...