Estate Planning Basics

End of Life Considerations

Unfortunately, even with such documents completed by the patient, these documents and the patient's wishes do not always end up in the patient's m...

Seven Myths About Estate Planning

What we think we know about wills, trusts, and estate planning can often be more dangerous than what we don't know. In this article, we will consider ...

Considering Claims Against the Estate

Claims against the estate affect your estate plan. It is important to be sure that if you have a claim against a decedent’s estate that you file it...

Six Estate Planning Documents Every Virginian Should Have

Death is inevitable, and without proper estate planning, the Commonwealth of Virginia will make the decision about what happens to your children a...

Reasons Why Everyone Needs Estate Planning

Estate Planning is a fancy way of describing a written document that ensures that after you die or become incapacitated your property is passed in a...

Creating the Right Estate Plan

I met Mrs. Adams one day while I was on my lunch break. I had decided to stop by a popular bakery for a cranberry-turkey sandwich -- one of my fav...

Cheap Estate Planning Is Not Cheap

The persistent lurching sensation began as I drove my car down the tight country road. I looked down to see if I had fuel, but a half tank remaine...

Estate Tax Planning and Legislation

Estate tax planning is one of the most important things the owner of an estate can do to preserve as much of his/her assets and wealth as possible f...

Domestic Asset Protection Strategies

Protecting your domestic assets is very important, but it can be a very daunting task. There are companies out there that can and will help you with...

Will and Inheritance

There are over 6 billion people on this planet but not every person has a will. A will is possibly one of the most important legal documents a perso...

Estate Administration

Finding information on estate administration is a simple process online, especially if the estate itself is not very large. If you have an estate wh...

Debt and Death

When a person dies, the person in charge of his or her estate is known as the executor. This person is in charge of carrying out certain responsibil...

Estate Plan Snapshot

Take the estate planning snapshot test. You need to look ahead to the time when you are sitting up in Heaven and looking down on your family while th...

Three Step Strategy to Estate Planning

Results are important, not just the documents. For proper estate planning it is important to have clear, comprehensive, customized instructions for yo...