Estate Planning and Trust Articles

• Basics of Charitable Remainder Estate Planning Trusts — Considers the benefits of charitable giving as part of your estate planning and how you can make charitable giving work for you.
• Estate Planning — Discusses some important things to consider when planning your estate.
• Estate Planning and Designating Trusts — Describes how to use trusts effectively as part of your estate planning and the benefits using trusts will afford you and your loved ones.
• Estate Planning and Trusts — Provides a further discussion of the use of trusts.
• Estate Planning Crucial — Confronts the issue of estate planning head on and urges you to think about and plan for the distribution of your own estate before it is too late.
• Estate Planning Historically Facilitated with Trusts — Lists the different kinds of trusts that can be used in estate planning and discusses the benefits of each.
• Estate Planning Reduces Practical Issues at Loss — Describes how thorough estate planning can save your loved ones time and pain after your death by cutting through the red tape.
• Estate Planning to Cover Costs Estate Taxes — Relates the issues associated with the death tax and discusses how to overcome or minimize them through intelligent estate planning.
• Estate Planning to Maximize Asset Retention — Describes how to use different investment vehicles in order to maximize your asset retention and minimize your payments to Uncle Sam.
• Estate Planning to Minimize Taxes — Discusses the best ways to minimize your death tax.
• Estate Planning to Transfer Assets — Describes how to transfer assets to loved ones before your death in order to maximize your asset retention and minimize your payable taxes.
• Estate Planning Using Trusts — Describes more options available to you when using trusts in the planning of your estate.
• Estate Planning with Trusts and Other Financial Vehicles — Defines a family limited partnership and the benefits this can afford.
• Estate Planning with Wills and Trusts — Defines the different classifications of trust ownership and the effect trust ownership classification can have on the distribution of your assets.
• Five Choices in Estate Planning — Lists the five key vehicles of estate planning and the control each affords you over the distribution of your estate.
• History of Estate Planning and Trusts — Describes the historical roller coaster ride of estate taxation.
• How Can I Control the Distribution of My Estate with an Annuity? — Describes how annuities can be used to control the distribution of your estate after your death.
• Neglecting Estate Planning and Trusts Can Be Costly — Discusses why and how to keep your estate planning documents up-to-date.
• Plan to Protect Your Estate's Assets — Talks about estate taxation and things to consider when trying to protect yourself against excessive taxation.
• Planning Your Estate with Life Insurance — Compares the use of life insurance as an estate planning vehicle with IRAs.
• Trust Estate Planning and Probate — Describes what will happen to your estate after your death; defines the process of probate.
• Wills and Trusts To Plan Your Estate — Presents the basics of planning for your death or for incapacitation.