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- 2 types of life insurance policies
- 3 areas to consider before setting up a trust
- 3 benefits of dynasty or generation-skipping trusts
- 3 facts about conservatorship
- 3 key differences between revocable and irrevocable trusts
- 3 reasons not to ignore a loved one’s loneliness
- 3 reasons to have an estate plan
- 3 things a trust does that a will does not
- 3 tips for choosing the right executor
- 3 types of advance directives
- 3 ways to avoid a contested estate plan
- 4 benefits of an irrevocable trust
- 4 estate planning mistakes to avoid
- 4 estate planning steps you should not overlook
- 4 reasons to incorporate long-term care into your estate plan
- 4 steps to keep your assets in the family
- 4 things to consider with your power of attorney
- 5 estate planning tips for seniors
- 5 questions to help your parents with estate planning
- 5 reasons people do not talk about estate planning
- 5 tips to help you avoid estate planning chaos
- 5 ways to avoid a contested estate plan
- 70 percent of adults with children do not have wills
- A conservatorship can be a crucial part of estate planning
- A letter of instruction can give your estate plan context
- A Massachusetts irrevocable trust may be decanted
- A revocable trust can provide for children of a single parent
- A revocable trust cannot serve its purpose until it is funded
- A special needs trust can help put parents’ minds at ease
- A special needs trust could be crucial for Massachusetts parents
- Abuse of incapacitated adults
- Accounting for all assets, including digital ones
- Acting as an executor for a will
- Addressing assets during probate means looking at online accounts
- Administering a Massachusetts Special Needs Trust
- Adult children need to discuss estate planning with parents
- Advance directives do not always work, ask Casey Kasem’s family
- Answer these questions to determine whether you need a trust
- Any long term care plan should include powers of attorney
- Are conservatorships and guardianships the same?
- Are wills enough to provide for Massachusetts pets?
- Are wills really that important for Massachusetts residents?
- Are you hoping to stay home as you age?
- As an executor, how should you get started?
- Assessment may help Massachusetts residents complete wills
- Asset protection for Massachusetts couples in a second marriage
- Asset protection is a common and viable estate planning goal
- Assisting elderly parents with estate planning
- Attending to the probate process falls to Massachusetts executors
- Avoiding conflict in Massachusetts estate administration
- Avoiding estate taxes in Massachusetts
- Be sure to update beneficiary designations on retirement assets
- Before executing powers of attorney, consider this
- Beneficiaries could affect estate administration in Massachusetts
- Benefits of a special needs trust
- Benefits of estate planning
- Billionaires make bold pledge to donate half their fortune
- Blended families up the stakes in asset protection
- Boston parents of minor children should consider wills
- Build backup plans into your power of attorney
- Can a living trust help you avoid probate in Massachusetts?
- Can I use a simple will?
- Can you minimize your heirs’ taxation?
- Can your estate plan benefit from some spring cleaning?
- Careful financial inventory can help with estate administration
- Carrie Fisher’s estate administration hits snag with trust issue
- Celebrities prove that wills are good, but trusts may be better
- Challenges of long-term care planning and skilled-nursing care
- Changes in marital status may require changes in estate planning
- Changing beneficiary designations is part of estate planning
- Choosing a trustee for an irrevocable or revocable trust
- Choosing the right estate administrator is important
- Clearing up misconceptions about wills, trusts and estate plans
- Cohabitation can make estate planning even more important
- Common estate planning documents
- Common misconceptions about estate planning for young parents
- Confused about long term health care planning in Massachusetts
- Conservatorships and guardianships important in estate planning
- Conservatorships may be needed if dementia sets in
- Conservatorships of adults
- Consider a preneed contract for your funeral
- Considerations for including pets in wills
- Considerations regarding a Massachusetts special needs trust
- Contemplating the probate process is often uncomfortable
- Correcting estate planning mistakes
- Correctly signing documents on behalf of an estate
- Could a Massachusetts estate need more than one probate process?
- Could an irrevocable trust have a place in your estate plan?
- Court: Man’s ex will collect money from life insurance, not wife
- Creating a revocable or irrevocable trust for pets
- Creating a trust for a child with an uncertain disability
- Creating wills can help Massachusetts residents protect family
- Dealing with a loved one’s debts during the probate process
- Dealing with debts during the probate process
- Debt could affect division of assets after death in Massachusetts
- Debunking common myths about wills
- Designing wills to combat disgruntled heirs and beneficiaries
- Did your father have dementia when he wrote his will?
- Differences between revocable and irrevocable trusts
- Different options provided by a revocable vs. irrevocable trust
- Digital asset protection
- Disadvantages of using downloadable estate planning forms
- Discussing powers of attorney and end-of-life choices with family
- Dividing assets among children can be problematic
- Dividing land, other assets in wills can have complications
- Dividing your company between heirs
- Do all assets have to go through the probate process?
- Do changes need to be made to a revocable trust when relocating?
- Do I have to give up my house to Medicaid planning?
- Do I really need a health care proxy?
- Do rich, young people need wills? The answer is yes
- Do you have to sell your home when you move into long-term care?
- Do you need a revocable trust or irrevocable trust?
- Does it make sense to consider a trust?
- Does Massachusetts prioritize people to serve as guardians?
- Does your Massachusetts will need to updated?
- Don’t forget about digital assets when creating an estate plan
- Don’t wait to do estate planning for family and asset protection
- Early distribution a mistake during estate administration
- Easing family stress during the probate process
- Elder care admin accused of fraudulently using powers of atty
- Ensuring that Massachusetts residents’ wills are valid
- Eric Carr’s estate sues KISS as part of its estate administration
- Estate administration and social media
- Estate administration complications may hit Fernandez estate
- Estate administration difficulties for Prince’s heirs
- Estate administration involves responsibility and obligations
- Estate administration may be too much for some family members
- Estate and health care planning for aging Massachusetts residents
- Estate and inheritance taxes on assets can be significant
- Estate planning and long-term care insurance
- Estate planning and the five-year lookback period for Medicaid
- Estate planning applies to lifetime as well as after-death needs
- Estate planning as a retiree: Consider each type of trust
- Estate planning barriers to achieving asset protection
- Estate planning can avoid court-appointed guardianship
- Estate planning can help pay for long-term care
- Estate planning can help plan guardianships in Massachusetts
- Estate planning can help with asset protection when remarrying
- Estate planning can reduce your loss to estate taxes
- Estate planning considerations for blended families
- Estate planning discussion may help family understand wishes
- Estate planning for a second marriage focuses on asset protection
- Estate planning for the terminally ill: 3 factors to consider
- Estate planning for transferring real estate and other assets
- Estate planning for trickier assets like pets and airline miles
- Estate planning gives peace of mind to Massachusetts families
- Estate planning in the computer age
- Estate planning in the new year
- Estate planning is essential to asset protection
- Estate planning is essential to long-term care
- Estate planning is more complex with an heir who has an addiction
- Estate planning is necessary for asset protection
- Estate planning is needed for digital asset protection
- Estate planning is not only for married couples
- Estate planning makes sense for many Massachusetts residents
- Estate planning may help Massachusetts residents prepare for care
- Estate planning may lessen strain of caring for an elderly parent
- Estate planning mistakes to avoid as you age
- Estate planning options are available for every situation
- Estate planning takes care of your family’s needs
- Estate planning tips
- Estate planning tips following a divorce
- Estate planning to avoid family conflict
- Estate planning tools can help with asset protection
- Estate planning while expecting a child is great timing
- Estate planning, power of attorney important for college students
- Estate planning: 3 options for reducing Massachusetts estate tax
- Even disorganized people need wills
- Executors need to be willing to complete the probate process
- Exploring the reasons you might need Medicaid assistance
- Facing mortality is necessary to protect your assets for heirs
- Facts to know about special needs trusts
- Failure to consider health care planning could be costly
- Failure to update wills could cause problems: Whitney Houston
- Family contests the costs of estate administration
- Family members benefit from a loved one’s estate planning
- Favoritism in estate planning
- Fighting back against elder abuse
- Find the help you need as personal representative of an estate
- For full asset protection, updating estate plans is necessary
- For many people, the hardest part of estate planning is beginning
- Future health care planning essential for Massachusetts residents
- Getting ahead of the curve with Medicaid planning
- Getting the most out of your will
- Getting through the probate process as an executor
- Google gives users the tools to name heirs for online data
- Guardianships protect people, but also affect their rights
- Guiding your heirs: Protecting your estate in Massachusetts
- Have questions about asset protection and estate planning?
- Have you experienced a major event in your life recently?
- Having a long-term care plan in case of ‘the long goodbye’
- Having a will and a revocable trust is not enough
- Having a will does not mean family can avoid the probate process
- Health care planning and power of attorney
- Health care planning can help to avoid a financial disaster
- Health care planning could prove burdensome in Massachusetts
- Health care planning for after retirement
- Health care planning for all situations
- Health care planning involves exploring care facility options
- Health care planning may avoid unexpected cost burdens
- Health care planning may concern the wealthy in Massachusetts
- Health care planning may lessen burden on families
- Health care planning now can make things easier on family members
- Healthcare and financial POAs offer benefits beyond the obvious
- Heath Ledger’s death illustrates the need to update wills
- How a wealth advisor can oversee the distribution of assets
- How are a health care proxy and a living will different?
- How can a trust elevate my estate plan?
- How can conditional gifts in a trust help you and your family?
- How can one appoint a guardian for his or her minor children?
- How can you choose a guardian for your children?
- How can you deal with the stress of probate?
- How can you diversify your estate plan?
- How can you ensure your money stays in the family?
- How can you help your parents manage their money?
- How can you include your business in your estate plan?
- How can you know if a revocable trust is right for you?
- How can you reduce family conflict while estate planning?
- How dementia can impact your family’s estate planning
- How do conservatorships work?
- How do I create a pet trust?
- How do I create an educational trust?
- How do Massachusetts parents leave assets to minor children?
- How do trusts save my estate money?
- How do trusts work?
- How do you discuss your estate plan with loved ones?
- How do you distinguish between good and bad nursing homes?
- How does Medicare’s nursing home rating system work?
- How does probate work in Massachusetts?
- How generation-skipping trusts benefit younger heirs
- How getting remarried affects your estate plan
- How guardians are appointed in Massachusetts
- How important are wills for Massachusetts single parents?
- How may a conservatorship help manage my affairs?
- How may a personal representative pay the deceased’s debts?
- How often should I review my estate plan?
- How planning your estate now can avoid sibling squabbles
- How should you tackle estate plan review?
- How succession planning protects your business
- How the law handles estate distribution without a will
- How to choose witnesses to your will signing
- How to help aging parents create a long-term care plan
- How to include an art collection in an estate plan
- How to know if a conservatorship is the right choice
- How to minimize your estate taxes
- How to split an inheritance between multiple heirs
- How to talk to your parents about estate planning
- How to talk to your parents about their senior living plan
- How to use an international property to reduce estate taxes
- If used correctly, a revocable trust could help avoid probate
- Important things to consider with long-term care planning
- Important times to update an estate plan
- Incapacitated adults rely on guardians for a number of things
- Incapacitation and powers of attorney
- Including cryptocurrency in wills
- Including pets in wills
- Including pets in wills
- Incorporating your business interests into an estate plan
- Intestate succession: An important will planning consideration
- Irish woman leaves no will, heirs traced back to Massachusetts
- Is an undue influencer trying to steal your inheritance?
- Is conservatorship appropriate for troubled actress Amanda Bynes?
- Is estate planning important for those without children?
- Is it always wise to avoid the Massachusetts probate process?
- Is it time to change your will?
- Is the probate process always necessary?
- Is there an age limit for starting estate planning?
- Is your estate plan safe?
- It could be a mistake to avoid the Massachusetts probate process
- It is not a good idea to go through the probate process alone
- James Brown’s will dispute finally comes to an end
- Joan Rivers’ death is an example of successful estate planning
- Joint ownership may not mean complete asset protection
- Keeping the probate process family friendly
- Knowing how wills in fit into estate planning
- Knowledge and updates can help with asset protection
- Lack of conservatorships can lead to legal fees
- Lack of info may make Massachusetts probate process more complex
- Leaving instructions in wills for beneficiaries
- Leaving someone out of a will? It may not be that easy
- Long term care planning should start early
- Long-term care planning and the “dangerous middle”
- Long-term health care planning can give peace of mind
- Long-term health care planning is a larger issue for women
- Long-term health care planning options for Massachusetts elders
- Long-term health care planning provides peace of mind for family
- Loved ones may play a role in health care planning
- Making estate administration less complicated
- Many assets do not have to go through the probate process
- Massachusetts 30-somethings need wills and related documents
- Massachusetts estate planning covers more than wills and trusts
- Massachusetts estate planning is about more than wills
- Massachusetts estate planning: Why wills matter
- Massachusetts estate taxes: Frequently asked questions
- Massachusetts heirs should know about digital assets
- Massachusetts parents may be interested in a special needs trust
- Massachusetts parents may want to set up a trust
- Massachusetts probate process and beneficiary designations
- Massachusetts probate process part 2: What is formal probate?
- Massachusetts probate process: What is informal probate?
- Massachusetts residents may consider revocable trust options
- Massachusetts residents sometimes forget possessions in wills
- Massachusetts wills 101
- Massachusetts wills can include some digital assets
- Massachusetts wills: What do executors do?
- Medicaid look back: 3 FAQs
- Medicaid planning considerations in Massachusetts
- Minimize death taxes with trusts
- Misconceptions regarding wills could hinder Massachusetts plans
- Missing out on health care planning could cause financial burdens
- More people need to consider long-term health care planning
- Need for guardianships may befall some Massachusetts residents
- Need for Massachusetts long-term health care planning on the rise
- New federal exemption allows people to refocus asset protection
- New trends that will impact long-term care planning
- Newly married couples in Massachusetts need wills, too
- No will? The fate of Prince’s assets could take years to resolve
- Non-parents can still benefit from creating wills
- Not all Massachusetts residents want to avoid the probate process
- Not enough people engage in long-term health care planning
- Numerous types of trusts exist. Which is right for you?
- Older family members may need help with asset protection
- Options for advance directives
- Organization can help heirs properly allocate assets
- Pet trusts: what are they, and should you consider having one?
- Philanthropist leaves surprising fortune to various organizations
- Planning for the probate process may help lessen stress
- Planning guardianships for Massachusetts special needs children
- Planning to improve the lives of those you love
- Planning your estate to avoid probate
- Police officer defends inheritance of $1.8M in assets
- Powers of attorney and joint bank accounts
- Powers of attorney are an essential estate planning tool
- Powers of attorney are essential parts of estate planning
- Powers of attorney can play vital role in estate plans
- Powers of attorney essential in long term care planning
- Preempting family disputes with estate planning
- Preparing the cornerstone of estate planning — the will
- Preserving means-tested benefits with a special needs trust
- Prince’s estate still in the probate process, IRS getting a lot
- Probate process not going smoothly for Robin Williams’ heirs
- Probate vs. non-probate assets
- Proposed regulations may help with long-term health care planning
- Protect your pooch with a solid pet trust
- Protecting Massachusetts incapacitated adults and minor children
- Protecting your assets from estate taxes
- Protecting your assets from the expense of long-term care
- Providing for your disabled adult child after your death
- Questions about a college trust fund
- Questions people should ask when making out their wills
- Recent tax changes affect how assets are transferred to heirs
- Remain thoughtful and judicious when selecting an executor
- Removing the mystery from probate
- Requesting an estate tax extension
- Retirement planning should not neglect the probate process
- Review is an important part of estate planning
- Review wills and estate planning documents regularly
- Reviewing wills, trusts and other estate planning documents
- Revocable or irrevocable trust — which is right for me?
- Revocable trust, other options may be of use in Massachuestts
- Rising insurance rates in Mass. will affect health care planning
- Robin Williams’ children and widow continue battle his assets
- Setting up a living revocable or irrevocable trust
- Setting up a special needs trust
- Setting up a trust for pets in Massachusetts
- Setting up the right sort of trust
- Should I use a virtual service for drafting my living will?
- Should you add your house to your estate plan?
- Should you agree to be a special needs trustee?
- Should you create a financial power of attorney document?
- Should you gift money to your adult child?
- Should you have a funeral trust?
- Should you have a living trust?
- Should you leave your investment properties to your children?
- Should you plan your estate while expecting a child?
- Signs that your parent needs professional care
- Single people also need wills and other estate planning documents
- Some Massachusetts residents include wills in their estate plans
- Start planning ahead for Medicare
- State senate approves virtual notarization bill
- Steps to take when parents do not pay their bills
- Strategies for managing estate debts and liabilities
- Study says full guardianships recommended most often
- Study: Most people have inadequate end-of-life care plans
- Succession planning benefits your family and the family business
- Taking advantage of the new year to do some estate planning
- Taking care of yourself with a health care proxy
- Taking it a step beyond wills and trusts
- Talking to parents about estate planning
- Taxes and the probate process in Massachusetts
- Technology and estate planning
- The ABC’s of a Massachusetts revocable or irrevocable trust
- The basics about trusts as part of an estate plan
- The basics of guardianship in Massachusetts
- The basics of the Massachusetts probate process
- The benefits of a special needs trust for Massachusetts families
- The benefits of power of attorney
- The benefits of wills, trusts and other estate planning documents
- The danger of leaving money to your child with special needs
- The dangers of keeping your estate plan secret
- The difference between guardianships and powers of attorney
- The difference between irrevocable and revocable trusts
- The differences between guardianship and power of attorney
- The drawbacks of estate planning without an attorney
- The elements you need in your estate plan
- The first order of business in estate planning
- The five main types of trusts in Massachusetts
- The holidays and health care planning in Massachusetts
- The importance of choosing the right executor for your estate
- The importance of estate plan reviews
- The necessity for health care planning illustrated by new numbers
- The probate process is harder without an up-to-date estate plan
- The pros and cons of an incentive trust
- The purpose of advance directives
- The role of estate administration in a wrongful death claim
- The struggles that young people face with extreme wealth
- The ups and downs of a revocable trust for Buzz Aldrin
- The validity of cell phone wills
- Theft from incapacitated adults by their caregivers
- There are warning signs of financial exploitation of the elderly
- There is more to estate planning than just a will
- There is more to estate planning that just wills and trusts
- Things to consider before disinheriting a child
- Things to remember in estate planning
- Third-party special needs trusts offer these 2 benefits
- Three reasons to make a will while you’re still young
- Tips for avoiding probate in Massachusetts
- Too few engage in long-term health care planning
- Top reasons you should create a trust
- Track testamentary capacity to protect an estate plan
- Transferring the parents’ home to their heirs
- Transferring your business to your children with an estate plan
- Trustees must keep beneficiaries informed
- Trusts help Massachusetts business owners protect business assets
- Trusts may reduce the risk of probate and estate litigation
- Trusts provide asset protection for minor children
- Understand revocable trusts and what they can do for you
- Understanding revocable vs. irrevocable trusts
- Understanding the drawbacks of online estate planning forms
- Understanding the Massachusetts probate process
- Understanding the types of probate can simplify the process
- Updating wills and estate plans
- Use a revocable or irrevocable trust for life insurance proceeds
- Using a living revocable trust in Massachusetts estate planning
- Using a revocable trust to distribute assets to children
- Using a revocable trust to pass an estate to children
- Using only wills may not benefit sizable Massachusetts estates
- Waiting too long to create wills could have negative impacts
- Warnings about signing a nursing home contract
- Wealthy Holocaust survivor leaves $40 million behind, no will
- Wedding bells, wills and other estate planning documents
- What are private options to finance long-term care?
- What are reasons to update your business succession plan?
- What are residential care options for those with Alzheimer’s?
- What are some factors to consider for long-term care planning?
- What are some mistakes to avoid during probate?
- What are some signs of a manipulative executor?
- What are some signs of undue influence on an elderly person?
- What are some traits of a quality executor?
- What are the advantages of a revocable living trust?
- What are the benefits of a living will?
- What are the benefits of a revocable trust?
- What are the differences between wills and trusts?
- What are the most common sources of stress during probate?
- What are the responsibilities of an executor?
- What are the upsides to an incentive trust?
- What are your green funeral options in Massachusetts?
- What can a trust accomplish that a will cannot?
- What concerns should you address about the future with a special needs child?
- What could disqualify a trust to be a Medicaid trust?
- What do I need to know about long-term care insurance?
- What does long-term care planning involve?
- What does Warren Buffett’s will look like?
- What events require you to update your estate plan?
- What every Massachusetts parent should consider in an estate plan
- What expenses can a special needs trust cover?
- What figures into financial eligibility for Medicaid?
- What happens during the probate process?
- What happens if you die without a will?
- What happens to digital assets upon death?
- What happens to validate a will and start the probate process?
- What happens when Massachusetts residents die without wills?
- What happens when people die without wills?
- What if I want to distribute my estate unevenly?
- What is a conservatorship and are there other options?
- What is a legal guardian?
- What is a Rogers Guardianship for extraordinary treatment?
- What is a simple will?
- What is an executor’s role in estate administration?
- What is ancillary probate?
- What is needed for durable powers of attorney
- What is the difference between a will and a trust?
- What is the probate process?
- What is the purpose of a special needs trust?
- What is the purpose of the probate process and how does it work?
- What is the role of your successor trustee?
- What is undue influence?
- What kind of taxes will apply to my father’s estate?
- What Massachusetts residents should know about wills
- What mistakes can you make while choosing an executor?
- What not to include in your will
- What should executors need to know about state estate taxes?
- What should I look for in long-term care insurance?
- What should new parents know about guardianships?
- What should you keep in mind while picking your beneficiaries?
- What should you put in your will?
- What situations make probating an estate necessary?
- What to consider when making a will
- What to do when adult children become incapacitated adults
- What types of problems extend probate?
- What will happen if you pass away without a will?
- What you need to know about gift taxes during estate planning
- When and how to update your revocable trust
- When does a conservatorship in Massachusetts end?
- When is the right time to begin estate planning?
- When should you reevaluate your estate plan?
- Where to start to protect assets after death
- Where will a single person’s assets go after death?
- Which assets may I transfer to a living trust?
- Who is eligible for Medicaid in Massachusetts?
- Who makes a good health care proxy?
- Who makes a good special needs trustee?
- Who manages an educational trust?
- Why asset protection matters for entrepreneurs
- Why can your beneficiaries change?
- Why consider advance directives?
- Why do I need to start Medicaid planning early?
- Why is probate taking so long?
- Why long-term care planning can be crucial right now
- Why may I need long-term care if I live in my own home?
- Why should young adults have wills and estate plans?
- Why young families should have an estate plan in place
- Widow of Johnson & Johnson heir passes away
- Will a revocable trust help meet estate planning goals?
- Will my estate owe state estate taxes?
- Wills and how they can help your loved ones
- Wills and naming beneficiaries
- Wills and perpetuity stipulations — misuse by troubled hospital?
- Wills and their beneficiaries
- Wills and trusts: How to protect assets
- Wills are just the beginning of stress relief for the future
- Wills are only the beginning of Massachusetts estate planning
- Wills are still a necessary part of a Massachusetts estate plan
- Wills are the first step in estate planning regardless of age
- Wills do not dictate where every asset will end up
- Wills help Massachusetts residents plan their families’ futures
- Wills may be challenged over testamentary capacity
- Wills take care of Massachusetts families after death
- Wills, healthcare proxies may bolster basic estate plans
- Wills, other planning documents can benefit business owners
- Wills, trusts and other documents important for estate plans
- Wills: Could Ric Ocasek’s unresolved divorce affect his estate?
- Woman accused of mishandling professional guardianships
- You discover you are a beneficiary to a will: Now what do you do?
- You might have more digital assets than you realize
- Young adults in Massachusetts need wills, too
- Your parent’s powers of attorney
