Can a Testamentary Trust Protect Your Intellectual Property?

November 6, 2024

When managing your estate, people often overlook intellectual property (IP). If you are an artist, inventor, or business owner, your IP can be one of your most valuable assets. Incorporating IP into your estate plan is crucial to ensure that it benefits your heirs, primarily through a testamentary trust. However, what is a testamentary trust, and how can it protect your intellectual property? What Is a Testamentary Trust? A testamentary trust is created as part of your will and only takes effect after you pass away. It allows you to name a trustee who will manage the trust’s assets, including…

Safeguarding the Elderly Against Financial Exploitation

May 7, 2024

Cognitive decline, particularly associated with conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, poses significant risks for financial exploitation. This post explores practical estate planning strategies to protect vulnerable individuals when signs of dementia are noticed.

How Can A Teen’s $250,000 Inheritance Vanish?

March 26, 2024

Learn from a teen’s loss of a $250K inheritance and discover how inheritance trusts can protect and guide your family’s future financial decisions.

What Should You Know about Annuities?

November 1, 2023

While they may be enjoying a new surge of popularity, the concept of annuities dates back to early Rome, when citizens would make a lump-sum payment to a contract called an annua in exchange for income payments received once a year for the rest of their lives.

What is a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust?

April 3, 2023

The idea of Medicaid Asset Protection Trust for the purposes of protecting against long-term care costs is becoming both more sought-after and more necessary.

Kirstie Alley’s Estate Planning

January 18, 2023

Kirstie Alley enjoyed the fruits of her labor following a successful career in the limelight, leaving behind a $40 million fortune and a massive real estate portfolio.

Why Your Beneficiary Designation Matters?

June 22, 2022

When you set up your estate plan it is important to coordinate the legal planning documents that you or you and your attorney create with the document provided by your retirement account custodian and/or your life insurance carrier called a ‘Designation of Beneficiary.’

Introduce Your Parents to a Password Manager?

May 26, 2022

Ever heard the phrase, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link?” The same goes for a financial portfolio: It’s only as safe as the password that protects it.

Should You Rule From the Grave?

October 7, 2021

There are many stories of strange conditions in wills and trusts over time. For example, the German poet Heinrich ‘Henry’ Heine died in 1856 and left his estate to his wife, Matilda, on the condition that she remarry, so that ‘there will be at least one man to regret my death’.

What’s a Common Pot Trust?

September 29, 2021

A pot trust is a type of trust that lists children as beneficiaries, with the trustee using his or her discretion as to how trust assets should be spent. If you have minor children, you might consider setting up a pot trust to meet their financial needs, if something should happen to you. This type of trust allows you to create a single pool of assets to be used for the benefit of multiple children.

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