Estate

Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.

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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

Planning for a Child With Special Needs

Planning for a Child With Special Needs

5 ways to navigate the financial challenges associated with caring for someone with special needs.

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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart

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Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.

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Trust Strategists with Baird Trust, discuss how different types of trusts can fit into your overall financial plan.

And the Executor Is

The right executor may help ensure the distribution of your assets is done with as little upheaval as possible.

3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families

This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.

Put It in a Letter

A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.

4 Steps to Protecting a Child with Disabilities

Planning for a child with special needs can be complicated, confusing, and even overwhelming.

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Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart

Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?

Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous

Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?

Safeguard Your Digital Estate

If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?

When Do You Need a Will?

When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

4 Elements of an Estate Strategy

Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

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