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A properly structured estate plan will help to fulfill your specific goals and wishes for asset control and distribution during your lifetime and after your death.

Without the proper legal, financial, and health care protection, you may be at risk should you become incapable of directing your own affairs.

The Economic Recovery Act of 1981 provides a 14-year deferral to families of owner-executives.

There are some issues that may be just as important as financial decisions, revolving around what types of health care measures will be taken (to alleviate suffering or prolong life).

Stringent privacy rules make it important that you consider an advance medical directives power of attorney to help direct your future health care.

With proper guidance, it is possible to keep your life insurance policy proceeds out of your estate and to also provide immediate funding for short-term financial needs.

It can be fairly easy to underestimate your net worth. After all, predicting the future value of your home and savings is merely hypothetical.

Compared to previous generations, it is now quite common for work and recreational activities to cross state lines, resulting in ownership of property and formal relationships in more than one state.

Conventionally, estate planning has focused on how to minimize estate taxes and designate who gets what when you die.

While most people may be resigned one way or another to the inevitability of taxation, many may be unaware that they have a choice regarding the form in which their contribution to society is fulfilled.