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.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
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Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
How To Talk Through Transitioning a Family Business
Five strategies to navigate difficult conversations around succession planning and help bring a family together.
Taking Control of Your Financial Future
Baird Women Advisors provides 5 tips on how women can build their knowledge and confidence about money and investing.
What is the Value of Your Business?
Ascertaining the value of your business is important for a variety of reasons.
Will Power
Preparing for the eventual distribution of your assets may not sound enticing. But a will puts the power in your hands.
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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4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Perspectives on Estate Planning
Estate Planning is not just for the extremely wealthy
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