Avoid Needing a Probate Attorney - Don't Die Without a Will!

While not the most pleasant topic to look forward to, making out a will can be very important. A will is a document stating who is to receive what, upon one's death. Intestacy is the will designed by the state. If you haven't decided whom you want to receive your estate, the legislature has tried to guess what you would have done.

How a Charitable Remainder Trust Avoids Capital Gains

Do you own a highly appreciated asset that produces little or no income? Are you selling your business? Are you highly compensated and looking to shelter more of your income? Put the charitable remainder trust in your list of options.

Asset Protection Options

When thinking of your assets and obviously you have or you wouldn't have found this article, you have looked into different options there are out there for you to protect your investments. These options are designed for both Offshore and Domestic assets. When deciding on which protection you need it also depends on the monetary value of your property. You need to also factor in the type of asset it is and what possible risk you face.

Avoid Probate With Proper Asset Titling

Dying without a properly structured estate plan often means months of expenses and frustration for surviving family members. While a complex estate plan is necessary for those with wealth, there are some things you can do to relieve your heirs of the hassles and expenses of probate - without spending a lot of money to get it done!

Six Tips On A Florida Living Trust - Sunshine Estate Planning

A living trust helps avoid the expense and delays of probate in Florida. It also allows you to hand over management of your assets to someone else if you become incapacitated.

California Living Trusts - Avoiding The Long Arm Of Probate Legally

A living trust helps married couples avoid estate taxes. You gain more privacy because in California you don't have to register it with the courts in probate.

Living Trusts - Dying Isn't What It Used To Be

A living trust can help save the expense and delay of probate - which can last three years and take up to 10% of your estate's value.

Death and Debt

What about your debts and when you die? Who is responsible for any outstanding bills to be paid when the person owing them has died? Does one get off scott free? Do their relatives have to pay for the debts their loved one had accumulated?

Will or Trust? The Wrong Choice Could Cost Thousands

The average will costs, $400-$500 a trust $2000. Which costs more? Find out the true costs of each and make the most of your estate planning time and dollars.

A Free Living Will Tells Your Family What You Want

A Free Living Will is a will that you have drawn up on your own and had your family members and loved ones sign. Be wary, not everyone can draw up a will properly and if you decide to draw up a free one, you should know the risk involved.

Living Trust Taxation Tips

A living trust determines how assets transferred to it are handled after your death.

A Joint Tenancy Is Where Two Persons Co-Own A Property

A Joint Tenancy is where you and another person co-own or cohabitate the same property. Joint Tenancy also refers to where a married couple owns a home or property together. You might also want to know that a Joint Tenancy can have more than two people who own the property. The only stipulation to this is that no matter how many people own the property, they all own equal parts.

Independent Retirement Account - Defined, What Are The Options?

What is an Independent Retirement Account (aka IRA)? What are the factors in an inherited IRA from a spouse and a non-spouse? What happens when there is more than one qualified beneficiary named in a distribution? What happens when a non-qualified beneficiary is named in a distribution of an IRA?

Certificates of Deposit - What is it?

Define Certificate of Deposit (aka CD) and what is a domestic CD and what are the International CD options such as Offshore CD or Eurodollar Certificates of Deposit. The advantages of International CD are higher interest rates, income tax benefits, anonymity. BNP, Banco Nacional do Panama. London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) discussed.

What Are Living Trusts ?

A living trust is where you entrust certain properties and or funds to either one individual or group of people, using a trust you set up while you are living and in the right state of mind. The person or people become you beneficiaries and you can change your living trust at any point in time that is needed.