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A competent elder law or estate attorney can keep the estate process on track, and knows of provisions like family allowances, benefits to prepaying inheritance tax, even where the tax return is not yet complete and a listing of itemized deductions.
These agents take over your affairs in specific areas, if you become physically or mentally incapacitated.
No one likes doing taxes, but the task is even more daunting when filing a return for someone who has died.
Preparing for an estate sale can be a difficult and emotionally challenging task.
Whether you drew up a will recently or years ago, keep in mind it’s generally not something you can set and forget.
Advice for adult children, so their parents in nursing homes and assisted living are safe from scammers.
This is an important question to ask, because the answer could tell you whether you need to worry about estate taxes, beneficiary issues or probate concerns.
While the sudden caregiver has no preparation, no warning signs or slow changing of circumstance, the long-term caregiver certainly experiences situations of crisis.
Creating a list of digital accounts and instructions on how to gain access to them is now akin to having a traditional will or a trust in estate planning.
Good estate planning must consider more than what you want to happen to your property and for your beneficiaries. It also must consider what you intentionally want to avoid happening.
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