Estate
Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?

Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.

Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
Managing an Inheritance
A windfall from a loved one can be both rewarding and complicated.
Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs)
Explaining Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs) and their benefit to estate strategy.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
Critical Estate Documents
Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.
Estate Strategies of the Rich and Famous
The examples of famous celebrities underline the need for a clear estate strategy.
A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes
An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.
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What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
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Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
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