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.

When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.

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

Four Steps to Valuing an Estate
Determining the value of your estate, or for someone who has passed away, can be a complex undertaking.

When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
A Checklist for When a Spouse or Parent Passes
An overview of some fundamental steps when a loved one passes.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage
Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.
Managing an Inheritance
A windfall from a loved one can be both rewarding and complicated.
A Brief History of Estate Taxes
Federal estate taxes have long since been a lucrative source of funding for the federal government.
3 Estate Challenges for Blended Families
This article will help your clients with blended families think and prepare their estate strategy.
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What Is My Current Net Worth?
Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.
What's My Potential Estate Tax?
This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.
What Is My Life Expectancy?
Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
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.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
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.