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Category Archives: Estate Planning
5 myths about Social Security
Everyone knows there are financial difficulties with the Social Security system, but misinformation and falsehoods are obscuring the problem and what needs to be done.
By Liz Weston, MSN Money
If you want to know the truth about Social Security, don’t ask a politician or a pundit.
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8 things to consider before retiring
How wisely you invest your savings and plan for future income will determine when you can afford to stop working. Reviewing these essentials is part of that process.
By Phiilp Moeller, U.S. News & World Report
Save, save and save some more is one of the mantras of retirement preparation. These days, it’s been joined by “work, work and work some more.” People have responded to investment, employment and housing shocks by deciding to continue working. Some surveys show people are typically adding a full five years onto their employment plans.
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3 Must Have Legal Papers
If you were too injured or ill to make your own decisions, who would do it? A stranger or a greedy relative picked by the state? Don’t wait; make your choices known.
Writing about incapacity is one thing. Experiencing it, even secondhand, is quite another.
My father suffered a devastating stroke while visiting his sister in Florida. During the final four months of his life, this once bright, capable man couldn’t decide anything more complicated than what color shirt to wear on a given day. Every other decision regarding his life — what he ate, how his bills were paid and how hard his caregivers should fight to keep him alive — had to be made by others.
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Dodging debt . . . by dying?
Yes, there are some places where even bill collectors won’t follow you. But if you decide simply to leave your debts behind, find out how the living will be affected.
They say you can’t take it with you — a saying that these days applies as much to debt as wealth.
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16 Things to do Before You Die
Estate planning will ensure that your loved ones know your wishes — and that they’re cared for in the unlikely event of your death.
While many of us like to think that we’re immortal, the only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes, to paraphrase Ben Franklin. Not only is it important that you have a plan in place in the unlikely event of your death, but you must also implement your plan and make sure others know about it and understand your wishes — as Franklin also said, “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
If you’ve procrastinated on your estate planning, here’s a list of tasks to get you going in the right direction.
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