Estate Planning as a Career

An Advanced Medical Directive deals with life’s real issues and combats the problems that arise where most boilerplate healthcare powers of attorney, healthcare proxies, living wills and others fall short. The Terri Schiavo case is a prime example of such a problem where the power to control one’s medical condition becomes a gray realm and ends up in a myriad of appeals, numerous motions, petitions and hearings for many years in litigious battle. The result is much heartache, f (more…)

I was invited by my good friend and wealth planner, Alice Phua, to a talk today about how to avoid the pitfalls on estate planning. I did not know what to expect when I was going for the talk and thought that it should not be anything relevant to me since I have my finances in place and my will drafted out since last year.

However, I was surprised that there are so much more information about estate planning in Singapore on the financial, legal and tax aspects of it. It (more…)