What Needs to Be Reviewed in Estate Plan?
May 3, 2022
Here are some important parts of your estate plan that should be reviewed.
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Here are some important parts of your estate plan that should be reviewed.
This post circulating on Facebook addressing do-it-yourself estate planning makes some good points but also contains some major falsehoods, especially as they apply to Louisiana. Learn what is good and not so good about this post intended for people outside of Louisiana.
While the number of older Americans with wills has been dropping in recent years, that doesn’t mean you should forego this legal document.
It’s hard for a family to recuperate when the patriarchs and matriarchs have gone to glory, leaving a battle for who will carry the family’s leadership role and manage the family’s transition of wealth.
Out of sight, out of mind isn’t just an everyday adage—it’s one of the reasons why people 50 and over fail to write a will, update a previous one, or make other estate planning decisions.
A competent elder law or estate attorney can discuss and use, where appropriate, such provisions as the family exemption, benefits to prepaying inheritance tax, even where the tax return is not yet complete and a listing of itemized deductions.
Louisiana law provides that once a married couple is divorced, the ex-spouse loses all rights under the will, but there are other ways your ex-sposue could inherit your assets.
Without a valid will, a person’s estate passes to their surviving heirs under intestate succession (i.e., ‘succession without a will’).
Last week, Bruce Springsteen made headlines for selling his entire music catalog to Sony Music Entertainment in a reportedly $500+ million deal. A number of fans are now asking, “Why did Bruce Springsteen sell his music rights?
Here are the top five mistakes people make that upend their planning.
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