Archive for February, 2010

Your Estate Matters!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Pundits make time worn, but very true statements. A certainty of life is death and taxes. This statement is true yet every taxpayer is in control of the degree of the "tax bite.Death creates tax issues yet many taxpayers are reluctant to enter into tax planning that recognizes their death. ...

Be Careful of Leaving Everything to Your Spouse

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

I am all about asset protection and planning ahead for the future in case anything bad should happen to you. That used to mean keeping an up to date will. These days wills are hardly used at all, instead people use trusts because they do a much better job than ...

How to Avoid Tax on Debts

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Estate planning is tricky under the best of circumstances, and even under normal circumstances it can be downright difficult to do correctly. One thing that often slips through our fingers and we fail to spend an adequate amount of attention on is the effect of debt on estate planning.Most people ...