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Multiple trust options for married couples

When evaluating options for an estate plan, a married couple generally makes decisions together. These decisions include whether or not to establish a trust.  People should understand that they have many choices when it comes to trusts. Learning about the different...

Estate planning and mental health concerns

Whether you are struggling with challenges related to mental health or one of your close family members has a mental health problem, there are a variety of ways in which these concerns can affect your estate plan. According to USA.Gov, an effective estate plan helps...

Estate plans and mental relief

Creating an estate plan can provide you and your loved ones with a number of benefits, not only from a financial point of view but in other aspects of life as well. For example, you will likely benefit in terms of your emotions if you successfully set up an effective...

Why do I need a health care directive?

Estate planning can be quite a challenge, especially if you need to take care of many things like setting up a trust, will, and guardianship. When you have already done so much to prepare for tomorrow, is a health care directive really worth the effort? Only just...

Should I get a living trust?

The majority of people are familiar with the concept of a will. However, most are not nearly as familiar with a living trust. Living trusts and wills are similar in some ways, but living trusts can do some things that a regular will cannot. Whether or not a living...

What is a living will, and do I need one?

Most people know that wills and trusts are for upholding the final wishes of the deceased. These documents ensure that loved ones properly inherit assets, establish a guardianship, and help avoid lengthy probate procedures. If wills and trusts are this useful, what...

Do family members make the best executors?

Delaware residents like you are meticulous about estate plan creation and management. This means you want the best of the best looking after your estate, too. In other words, you want an executor that you have no misgivings about. You may think this makes a family...

Use a trust for potential disinheritance

Living trusts are trusts that you create while you are alive. In estate planning, most people know the vague idea of a trust but may not know the specifics of how it works. They also may not know how a trust can benefit a person in case your beneficiaries change or...

How should you handle business succession planning?

Delaware business owners like you dedicate time, money and effort to your business. You build it from the ground up. You nurture and care for it. You put your heart and soul into it. So what do you do when it is time to pass on the torch?  Business succession planning...

Why should you have a will?

You may not think that you need a will, especially if you are younger, just starting a family or at the beginning of your career. You would not be alone—70% of Americans do not have a will in place. However, a will can be an essential tool at any stage of your life....

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