Digital Assets and Estate Planning: What You Need to Know
As life becomes increasingly digitized, it is more important than ever to consider digital assets when planning your estate and drafting your estate planning documents
As life becomes increasingly digitized, it is more important than ever to consider digital assets when planning your estate and drafting your estate planning documents
Choosing beneficiaries for your financial accounts, like retirement funds, life insurance, and bank accounts, seems simple, but mistakes can lead to serious problems. One common pitfall is failing to update your beneficiaries.
The process of planning with a client for long-term care, asset preservation, and estate planning has revealed many regularly recurring elder law issues that are common among many clients.
Choosing the right personal representative—also known as the “executor”—is a crucial decision in estate planning when writing your Last Will & Testament. A personal representative manages a person’s assets after they die. The person selected should be trustworthy, organized, and financially literate.
One major area that clients often fail to address, which creates major difficulties for family members at death, is planning for and documenting digital assets
When thinking about estate planning, it may seem confusing to determine what documents should be prepared. But the truth is, with the assistance of an elder law attorney it’s quite simple.
Many small business owners are great at building and growing a business. As we age, it becomes increasingly important to prepare for retirement and the transition of the business to other partners or family members. Small businesses must be prepared for retirements or the sudden death or illness of leadership.
Estate planning is often a struggle between giving up control and receiving tax savings or other long-term benefits.
There are many ways to include charitable giving in your estate plan.
The best way to start working on your estate plan is to make an appointment with an estate planning attorney. As part of your preparation for your upcoming appointment, the attorney may provide you with a questionnaire that asks you about your assets and your family.