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Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Securing Your Legacy: Essential Estate and Succession Planning for Family Life Insurance Businesses

Experienced trusts and estates attorneys consistently observe how proper planning can mean the difference between a thriving legacy and a fragmented enterprise. For family-owned life insurance businesses, the stakes are...more

Offit Kurman

Why You Need to Update Your Estate Planning After a Divorce

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Divorce is a major life change that affects far more than just your relationship status. One crucial—but often overlooked—aspect that needs immediate attention after a divorce is your estate plan. Failing to update your...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Estate Planning for Physicians: Why It’s Important and How to Get Started

When you’re a physician, your life is defined by long hours, major responsibilities, and a focus on the health and well-being of your patients. Though dedication to your practice is commendable, planning for the future is...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Trust and Estate Planning for Business Owners

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Why is the end of the year a good time to consider trust and estate planning for business owners? Do you own real property or have other investments outside your business interests? Have you given any thought to what would...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Remember to Adjust Your Estate Plan During or After a Divorce

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Married couples often have wills naming one another as their primary beneficiary. People also often name their spouse as beneficiary of retirement accounts and life insurance policies. Upon commencing a divorce action,...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Legal-Ease: Steps for When a Loved One Passes Away - Part Three

This is my third and final article addressing what needs to be done after a person passes away. Part 1 addressed what a person needs to do prior to the decedent’s funeral. Part 2 addressed those things that don’t typically...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

Everything You Need to Know About Beneficiary Designations

Presented by Cohen Seglias associate Whitney Patience O'Reilly on October 22, 2020. An often overlooked but important aspect of estate planning is the designation of beneficiaries—both primary and contingent—on life...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Estate Planning During a Divorce: Four Key Considerations

You have planned your life carefully. With your spouse you have drawn up a will and established trusts to organize your estate after your deaths. You have made decisions about the guardianship of your children should anything...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Don't Forget Asset Ownership When Evaluating Your Estate Plan

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So, you’ve signed your estate planning documents. Nice work. But don’t forget that just having a Will and Trust is not enough. How you own your assets is an essential part of the equation, and should be reviewed to ensure...more

Jaburg Wilk

Getting Divorced? Don’t Forget to Update your Estate Plan

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Why do estate planning documents need to be updated when a couple is getting divorced? This simple story illustrates one of the key reasons. An Arizona couple had been married for several years and during their marriage had...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Choupette’s Legacy – Why Estate Planning Matters

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It is speculated that Choupette Lagerfeld, the pampered Parisian pet of the iconic late German fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld, may have a stake in Lagerfeld’s vast fortune....more

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