Your Estate Matters Newsletter Archive

Articles included in this issue:

• How to Avoid Disputes When Planning Your Estate
• Social Security and Retirement: Working Could Cost you Dearly
• Reduce Your Estate Taxes by Making Gifts
• Pay Off Your Mortgage Faster: Mortgage Accelerator Loans
• True Story: Elder Abuse

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Articles included in this issue:

• New Medicare Drug Plan: Beware of Scams
• Special Planning for Special Needs People
• True Story: Peter Jennings leaves $50 Million Estate
• Do New Medicaid Rules Endanger Your Benefits?
• Moving to Another State? How Does That Impact Your Estate Plan?

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Articles included in this issue:

• Identify Theft Danger - Are You Credit "Aware"?
• Your Financial Records: How Long Should You Keep Them?
• Will Your Child Choke on a Silver Spoon?
• Tired of Telemarketers?
• Unscrambling New Tax Notification Regulations
• True Story: Deceased Celebrities Keep on Earning... Can You?
• Estate Planning for Your Out-of-State Relatives

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Articles included in this issue:

• More Important Than Money
• Estate Plan Reviews Can Avoid Big Troubles Later
• Do You Know
• Living Wills and Organ Donations: Put it in Writing
• Consumer Alert: Watch Out for Trust Mills
• True Story
• Estate Planning for Out-of-State Residents

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Articles included in this issue include:

• The Most Common Mistake After Losing a Loved One
• FDIC Rule Changes
• True Story: How Not to Disclaim an Inheritance
• IRS Wins FLP Tax Cases
• Do you Qualify?
• Battle of the Exes
• Estate Planning for Out-of-State Family Members

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Articles included in this issue:

• Equal Love, Unequal Division
• Keeping It in the Family
• Can Money Buy Happiness?
• Your Life Changes, Does Your Estate Plan?
• True Story: White Sox Owner Strikes Out!
• Safeguarding Originals Is Critical
• Estate Planning for Out-of-State Family Members

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Articles included in this issue:

• Prison... Not the Best Estate Plan
• Business Owners Set Their Company Up With Lawsuits in Mind
• Protect Your Beneficiaries from Creditors
• Keep Your Assets Closer to Home With the Domestic Asset Protection Trust
• Safeguarding Originals is Critical
• Estate Planning: Not Just for the Rich
• Definitions for Asset Protection
• Can $15 Billion Buy Happiness? Ask Liesel Pritzker

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Articles included in this issue:

• New Medical Privacy Regulations Bring Wide Confusion
• 5 Simple Estate Planning Mistakes
• JGTRRA - What Does the Newest Bush Income Tax Decrease Mean for Your Estate Plan?
• Estate Tax Law Update - Stay Alert - Big Changes in Estae Tax Laws Can Mean a Lot to Your Estate Plan
• Essential Facts You Need To Know About Nursing Homes
• True Story - Katherine Hepubrn: A Private Life, Not So Private Anymore.

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Articles included in this issue:

• Don't Gamble With Your Future
• Family Limited Partnership Mistakes
• Keep Your Life Insurance in the Family: ILIT Mistakes
• 3 Medicaid Mistakes to Watch Out for
• Avoiding Family Feuds: Discuss, Don't Wait.
• True Story- Charles Kuralt: More Than Reporting "On the Road."

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Articles included in this issue:

• Caught Between Generations
• Three Generations, One Family
• Power of Attorney: What the Internet Doesn't Tell You
• True Story: Talk About Caught in the Middle...
• Emotional Issues: Take Time For Yourself

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Articles included in this issue:

• The Stages of Grief: How to Offer Support for Loved Ones
• Federal Changes Cause State Pain
• Encourage a Productive Life with Family Incentive Trusts
• True Story: Ripped from The Headlines: Buffalo, Poets Inherit!
• Estate Planning - A Woman's Worry?
• Power of Attorney Issues In Medicaid Planning

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Articles included in this issue:

• Qualifying for Medicaid: When is it Fraud?
• True Story: Ted Williams Strikes Out With A Bad Estate Plan
• SOS - Save Our Savings! How Long-Term Care Insurance Can Preserve Your Estate
• Social Insecurity - Rebuilding Your Safety Net
• The Biggest Tax Planning Failure Is Failing To Plan
• The Trust Issue: Choosing A Trustee

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Articles included in this issue:

• Live Longer, Distribute Less. New Ira Law Changes Mean Simpler Calculations, Less Time To Determine Beneficiaries.
• Mixed Families, Mixed Feelings-Inheritance And Second Marriages
• What Is A Medicaid Trigger And Why Do I Need One?
• Interesting Tax Facts: A fun look at America's tax code.
• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse - Especially in Estate Planning
• Trust Administration: Who's Responsible for What?

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Articles included in this issue:

• Don't Need That Big Inheritance? Maybe a Disclaimer Can Help
• Unlimited Gifting Through Medical and Educational Expenses - You Can Do More Than You Think
• Special Needs Require Special Planning
• Give the Gift of Education - 529 Education Savings Plans Make the Grade
• Even a Princess Has to Mind the Details
• Education Expenses - What Qualifies?
• Tax Law Changes

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Articles included in this issue:

• Keeping Control: The Ins and Outs of a Power of Attorney
• Family Limited Partnerships
• Using Trusts to Influence Your Children's Behavior
• Keeping it in the Family: Protecting Your Inheritance from Divorce, Lawsuits and Liability
• "INCENTIVE TRUSTS"
• DEFINITIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW!
• TRUE STORY: Asset Protection Power of Trusts

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