Should you name your living trust as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy? Advantages of Naming Your Trust. If your primary beneficiary is incapacitated or has special needs, directing ...

California living trust laws govern how residents can create and manage trusts to hold their assets, potentially bypassing ...

A common questions we hear from clients involves the fate of life insurance proceeds after someone passes away. Specifically, ...

Kelly-Anne’s uncle passed away and the bank has now locked the trust’s bank account. Considering that there’s a substantial ...

Minor children can’t directly receive the proceeds of a life insurance policy, but you could name a trust or your children’s legal guardian as a beneficiary. An individual retirement account ...

Totten or Payable on Death (POD) trust accounts allow beneficiaries to claim the account's assets upon the death of the account holder. Account in Trust accounts generally avoid probate ...

While CRTs might introduce complexity into the estate and tax planning, under certain circumstances and with thoughtful ...

The 200-acre Thorpe property in the Latah Valley was rushed into a land exchange by Hilary Franz in her last weeks as the state’s commissioner of public lands. In the coming days, the Board of Natural ...

Many joint bank accounts include rights of survivorship, which means that after one account owner dies, any remaining owners retain ownership of the funds in the account, without interruption. If ...

A Broward jury ordered one of the biggest banks in America to pay $826 million to the children of the Seminole Tribe of ...

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