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- Estate Planning: Clarifying The Basics
- Protecting Spendthrift Heirs
- Spendthrift Trusts Can Provide A Solution
- Appointing a Successor Trustee for Your Trust: Considerations
- Three Ways To Create a Trust
- Estate Litigation: Who can Contest a Will?
- Why You Should Put Assets in Trust for Your Children
- Category: Wills
- Category: Estate Planning
- How to Pass Down Your Legacy in Your Estate Plan
- Practical Steps to Take after Receiving a Terminal Diagnosis
- Why Your Safety Deposit Box Is Not Safe for Your Will
- How to Make Charitable Gifts
- Do Not Forget to Review and Revise Your Estate Plan
- You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Create a Pet Trust
- What Is a HIPAA Release?
- The Importance of Advance Directives for Health Care
- Small Business Succession Planning
- Category: Estate Planning in North Carolina
- Category: General
- Category: Incapacity Planning
- Incapacity Planning is a Must for Young Adults
- Ashland Estate Planning Attorney Explains the Benefits of a Power of Attorney
- Incapacity Planning for Guardianship Prevention
- Does a Power of Attorney End at Death?
- Is Incapacity Planning Really Important?
- What Are Advance Directives for Health Care?
- Why Do I Need a Power of Attorney?
- When Would a Guardianship Become Necessary?
- What Is the Difference Between a Guardianship and a Power of Attorney?
- What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of an Adult Guardianship?
- Incapacity Planning in Kentucky and Alzheimer’s Disease [Infographic]
- A Look At Advance Directives
- How Revocable Living Trusts Provide Incapacity Planning
- A Family Meeting to Discuss Options for Aging Parents
- Guardianship and Court Evaluation
- Category: Health Care Documents
- Category: Inheritance Tax in North Carolina
- Category: Intestacy
- Category: Legacy Planning
- Category: Life Insurance
- Category: Living Will
- Category: Long Term Care
- Category: Long-Term Planning
- Category: Medicaid
- Charlotte Medicaid Planning to Protect Eligibility
- Charlotte Medicaid Attorneys Explain How to Protect Healthy Spouses
- What Assets Can You Have and Still Qualify for Medicaid?
- How Ethical is Medicaid Planning?
- Medicaid Waivers and Huntersville Medicaid Planning
- How to Protect Assets From Nursing Home and Medicaid Recovery
- Who is Eligible for Medicaid?
- How Does a 529 College Plan Affect Charlotte Medicaid Planning?
- Medicaid Crisis Planning
- What Protections are Available for the Healthy Spouses of Medicaid Recipients?
- What is Considered a Countable Asset for Medicaid?
- What if I Can’t Afford Nursing Home Care?
- Will Medicaid Protect My Spouse?
- Understanding Changes in Medicaid Eligibility
- Include Asset Protection in Your Medicaid Plan
- Florence Medicaid Lawyer Explains Medicaid Look-Back
- Medicaid Attorneys Explain Medicaid and Medicaid Waivers
- Including Protections for Healthy Spouses in Your Huntersville Medicaid Planning
- Medicaid Planning Requires Understanding How Medicaid Recovery Works
- Charlotte Medicaid Lawyer Explains How to Protect Your Assets
- Medicaid Planning as a Long-Term Care Solution
- Ashland Medicaid Attorney Discusses Medicaid Fraud and How to Avoid It
- Using Medicaid Planning to Prepare for the High Cost of Nursing Homes
- Can You Avoid the Need for Emergency Medicaid Strategies?
- Category: Pet Planning in North Carolina
- Category: Power of Attorney
- Category: Probate
- How to Avoid Common Probate Mistakes
- How Long Does It Take to Probate an Estate in Kentucky?
- Understanding the Benefits of Avoiding Probate
- What Is Probate?
- A Probate Attorney Can Provide Assistance
- Useful Probate Tips for Charlotte, NC Residents
- Important Advice for Estate Executors in Ashland, KY
- Do You Need to go Through Probate if There is a Will?
- Do all Estates Need to be Probated?
- Why You Need A Probate Lawyer
- A Guide to Avoiding Probate
- Understanding the Basics of the Probate Process
- Using Living Trusts for Avoiding Probate
- A Few Tips From Our Charlotte Probate Lawyer
- Self Proving Wills and Other Suggestions From Our Ashland Probate Lawyer
- Ashland Probate Attorney Gives Advice to Executors
- Will My Estate Definitely Pass Through Probate?
- Probate-Free Asset Transfers: A Primer
- A Look at Kentucky Probate Laws
- What Do You Know About the Probate Process?
- Is Probate Always Required?
- How Long Does Probate Take?
- Avoiding Probate Can Provide Advantages
- Circumventing Probate Costs
- The Need to Have Open Communication as an Executor
- Who to Call When a Loved One Dies
- I Want to Avoid Probate
- What is Trust Settlement?
- I Know I Want to Avoid Probate, but what is Probate?
- Category: Retirement Planning
- Will You Pay Taxes on Retirement Income?
- Social Security Benefit Increase Is Possible
- IRA News: SECURE Act 2.0 May Become a Reality
- What Is the 2021 Social Security COLA?
- Understand Government Retirement Benefit Programs
- Answering a Common Social Security Question
- Mortgages Payments and Retirement
- Bad News for Social Security Recipients
- How Soon Can I Receive a Social Security Benefit?
- Recognize Modest Nature of Social Security Payouts
- Understand Costs Associated With Reverse Mortgages
- Answers to Three Common Questions About Social Security
- Required Minimum Distributions and What they Mean to Retirement Plans
- Category: Special Needs Planning
- Do You Need to Incorporate Special Needs Planning into Your Estate Plan?
- How Can a Special Needs Trust Trustee Use the Funds?
- An Overview of SSDI and SSI
- Preserve Benefits With a Supplemental Needs Trust
- Medicaid Eligibility Is Not Necessarily Permanent
- Special Needs Planning: Preserving Income
- Can an Inheritance Cause a Loss of Government Benefits?
- Category: Taxes
- Category: Trust
- Category: Trust Settlement
- Category: Uncategorized
