Estate Planning as a Career

You have two choices regarding how your assets will be distributed to you heirs in the event of your death. First, the can be distributed according to the express wishes contained in the estate plan you drew up with the help of an estate planning law firm; or second, they can be distributed according to the laws of inheritance established by your state legislature because you o never found the time to make a will. As amazing as it sounds, two out of every three Americans end (more…)

Taxes are something you have to pay all of your life, and if you do not plan ahead, they will be something your estates will be paying even after you are gone. So making sure that you get quality estate planning tax advice when you are arranging your final affairs is one way to ensure that your heirs, and not the IRS, receive the bulk of your estate.

While it may be trite to observe that no two individuals are the same, it is not a clich to say that everyone of us can be (more…)

Estates and estate plans have a mystique all of their own to the average observer. It is certainly a complex world of tax rules and regulations where inherited assets are taxed upon death. How might this affect you and the estate assets you now possess?

First of all what is an estate? Simply put it is the total of all of your assets including home, auto, pension and other retirement funds, collectibles and possibly the worth of a business minus liabilities constitutes (more…)