When considering getting married for the second time, or to someone with a prior family it is important to consider Estate Planning, Long-Term Care, the family home, Social Security, Alimony, Survivor’s Annuities, and College Financial aid as an article on Forbes has reported. Florida Estate Planning becomes very important when…
How is a Florida Estate Plan different if you or your spouse is not a citizen of the United States? The Connecticut Elder Law Blog reported in an article that if non U.S. citizens have a completely different set of estate tax rules to contend with. If the U.S. citizen…
Mark Jakubik of the Pennsylvania Estate Planning Lawyer Blog posted an article Reasons to Prepare a “Living Trust” where he has compiled a good list of reasons. They are: * Avoiding probate. Since the property is no longer in your name as an individual, but is now in your name…
When reviewing your Florida Estate Plan be sure that your will does not conflict with other actions you have taken to avoid probate. Assets that have joint ownership, payable on death designations or beneficiaries will not pass to the beneficiaries names in your Florida Estate Planning Documents. Often a person’s…
As Baby boomers retire and move to Florida or other states, one of the jobs of an Estate Planning Lawyer is to review the Beneficiaries on IRA and other types of accounts. Denice Glerach a lawyer in Naperville wrote an article discussing this problem and suggesting some solutions for IRA’s…
Randall Armour of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal wrote an article discussing Trust Mills and gives some advice on how to spot a trust mill and several problems associated with them. 1. Trust mills often prepare documents after the client has filled out a simple check-the-box-type questionnaire. Little or no…
Although there are no current verdicts against Florida Companies, many states have taken action against living Trust Scams / Trust Mills / and Elder Law Planning Seminars. Michael Bonasera of Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP and author of the The Ohio Trust & Estate Blog wrote an article titled Living…
The Supreme Court upheld the limits on income tax deductions for a trustsor estate. The Court ruled against the Knight family (they created Pepperidge Farm). The Court said trusts ordinarily may not deduct the full cost of investment advice on their income tax returns. These expenses are only deductible when…
Fox Business has an article on A New and Smart Way to Leave Your IRA to a Minor where they discuss the importance of reviewing beneficiaries on all acounts including insurance, annuities, and retirement plans. They discuss leaving a percentage of the account rather than a dollar amount as this…
Vanguard recently sent their clients a notice that they would no longer allow their clients to name different beneficiaries for multiple IRA accounts and would be changing the beneficiaries to whomever was named last. If you have a Florida Estate Plan that uses POD or beneficiary designations, this could significantly…