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• Have You Insured Your Family?
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• Financial Abuse: Minding Your $ and ¢
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• Have a Rental Property In Arizona?
• A House Divided ‐ When You Can’t Agree On Guardianship of Your Minor Children
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• The Difference Between Living Probate and Death Probate?
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• How To Talk To Mom or Dad When Safety Has Become an Issue
• About Those New Years Resolutions…
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• Why Having a Will Won’t Keep You Out of Probate
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• A Trust Without Assets = Very Expensive Paper
• Where There is a Will, There is a Way
• California is now the 5th Right-to-Die State
• Funding Your Trust
• Even the Young Need an Estate Plan
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• Will your child become Little Orphan Annie?
• Attorneys Get Paid per Word! And Other Untruths…
• To Tell or Not to Tell: Shedding Some Light on Your Estate Plan
• Even With the Best Planning – Families Disagree
• Is your Estate Plan a Trojan Horse?
• Prevention is the Best Medicine – Why You Should Consider a Corporate Trustee
• Protecting the Brady Bunch
• Don’t Take Your Passwords and Assets to the Grave
• Will Your Heart Outlast You?
• What is Your Legacy?
• Tragic Lessons from Bobbi Kristina Brown
• Springing Powers (Not Spring Flowers)
• Special Planning for Special Needs
• Are you a Procrastinator? (If so, read this later!)
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• Estate Planning Moves For Your 30s
• Basic Guide To Estate Planning
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• Let’s Eat Grandma! Let’s Eat, Grandma!
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• Include Online Accounts In Estate Plan
• Should I form a S corp. or LLC? (And you thought were no such thing as a stupid question.)
• Protecting Against Taxes
• The Importance of Beneficiary Forms
• Can’t Stay Retired?
• Congratulations! You graduated. Welcome to Adulthood
• Who Owns Digital Assets?
• Another Lesson From My Mom About Documents
• Green House Project | Homes Where Elders Can Thrive
• Avoid the HIPAA Headache!
• When Will a Beneficiary Deed be Ineffective?
• What Is a Beneficiary Deed?
• What Is Probate?
• How Will Estate Taxes Affect Me?
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• Why Do I Need An Attorney?
• What If I Have No Estate Plan When I Die?
• What Is Estate Planning?
• What are Revocable Living Trusts?
• What is the Probate Process in Arizona?
• How Does a Last Will and Testament Effect Elder Law?
• What is Estate Planning for Death?
• With Elder Law Who Will Make My Financial Decisions?
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• How Will Elder Law Help if I Become Mentally Disabled?
• Why is Elder Law important?
• Elements Of A Stress-Free Estate Plan
• The ABC’s of RLT’s
• Frequent Estate Planning Mistakes
• Women Have Different Money Needs
• What is Elder Law?
• Tips To Aid Adult Children
• Long-Term Care Premium Deductible Upped
• Exemption Increases Again
• Getting Ready For Life As A Single Woman
• What Happens When You Die?
• Estate Planning Not Only For The Wealthy
• Revocable Living Trust
• What Is HIPAA?
• Medicaid Advance Planning
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• An Estate Planning Bucket List
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• HIPAA Authorization Form
• Mental Health Care Power of Attorney
• Is A Trust For You?
• Consult an Experienced Medicaid Attorney
• HIPAA Penalities
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• Be Careful With IRA Beneficiary Forms
• Inheriting A Collection May Mean Work
• Celebrity Estate Planning Mistakes Teach Lessons
• Estate Planning: Should You Get A Prius Or A Hummer?
• Estate planning if you don’t have children
• What You Should Know About A Living Trust
• Is Writing A Will Like Backing Up Your Computer?
• Is A Prepaid Funeral A Good Idea?
• Get The Funeral You Want
• Emptying Out The Parents’ House
• Inheriting A Windfall
• A Few Things You May Not Know About Wills
• Inherited Wealth Good For The Economy?
• When To Give Money To Your Heirs
• Boomers Inherit Complications
• Naming A Trustee The Key To Starting A Trust
• Cost Of Nursing Home Now Near $90K A Year
• How To Start A Conversation With An Aging Parent
• Some Estate Planning Myths
• Estate Planning Questions That May Make You Uneasy
• Four Estate Planning Documents You Need
• Putting A Plant In Your Will?
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• Your Parents’ Possessions May Be Hard To Get Rid Of
• Don’t Take Your Passwords and Assets to the Grave
• Common Estate Planning Mistakes
• Estate Planning For People Under 40
• Plan To Leave A Legacy
• Biggest Estate Planning Mistake
• Is Your Estate Plan A Trojan Horse?
• What’s In Your Attic?
• Three Ways To Make Life Easier For Your Family
• Don’t Hope For An Inheritance, Ask For It
• Do You Need a Trust?
• Childless Couples Plan For Their Last Years
• Three Reasons You Need An Estate Plan
• Talk About Money Before Heading To The Altar
• The Fall of DOMA = The Rise of Confusion
• How to Preserve the Vacation Home for Your Family
• To Tell or Not to Tell: Shedding Some Light on Your Estate Plan
• The Five Benefits of a Revocable Trust
• Prevention is the Best Medicine & Why You Should Consider a Corporate Trustee
• Americans Writing Pets Into Their Wills
• Finish Your Planning in 2014
• Attorneys Get Paid per Word! And Other Untruths…
• Who Plans Your Funeral
• Updating Your Listed Beneficiaries
• California Intestacy
• Updating your Will with a Codicil
• I Have a Will, is my Estate Plan Complete?
• Three Ways to Plan for Your Collection
• The Intersection of Inheritance and Financial Aid
• Protecting the Brady Bunch
• Do You Know About These Trusts?
• 13 Estate Planning Situations That Call for an Annuity
• How Should I Update My Will
• Estate Planning for “Non-Traditional” Families
• Don’t Wait to Plan
• Limited liability companies
• Six Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid
• Important Estate Planning Tips for Women
• Incorporating Income Tax Planning Into Your Estate Plan
• Does Portability Eliminate the Need for a Bypass Trust?
• What if a Parent Won’t Discuss His or Her Estate Plan
• Rebuilding Your Credit
• Estate Planning for Everyday Americans
• Home-Loans After Bankruptcy
• Have the Legacy Discussion With Your Family Members
• Even More Estate Planning Pitfalls
• Retirement Accounts and Estate Plans
• Don’t Gift Things Away in Order to Qualify for Medicaid/ALTCS
• Planning for Longer Lives
• What Assets and Income are Counted when Applying for Mediciad/ALTCS?
• Estate Planning for Special Needs Children
• Eligibility Retirements for Medicaid/ALTCS
• Estate Planning When Living With a Parent
• The Cost of Long-Term Care
• Providing For Your Family Through Trust Bank Accounts
• What is Medicaid?
• Considering Gandolfini’s Will
• Develop a Plan for Your 529
• New Uses for Life Insurance
• How Do I Give to Charity Anonymously?
• New Budget Plan May Have Serious Effects on Estate Plans
• Charitable Estate Planning
• Simple Estate Planning for Young People
• Why is the attorney asking for so much paperwork?
• Tips to Avoid Estate Planning Fiascos
• Will Your Child Become Little Orphan Annie?
• Estate Planning, From Google
• Financial Steps to Protect Your Family
• Probate Is Not Necessarily A Bad Thing
• Five Things to Look for in a Guardian for your Children
• Important Estate Planning Step: The Personal Inventory
• Tend to Your Estate Plan with a Green Thumb
• Vidal Sassoon Disinherited Son
• Are You Playing Russian Roulette With Your Family? Why Estate Planning Is Urgent
• Do You Have An “Empty” Trust?
• Take Caution When Designating Beneficiaries
• Estate Planning Is Like Baking
• Trigger Events That Require Review of Your Estate Plan
• Pet Trusts
• I Just Moved to Arizona, Can I File Bankruptcy Here?
• Advantages of the Mobility Trust
• An Inventory of Assets is Essential to your Estate Plan
• Estate Planning: Questions You Should Ask
• Simple Tips for Special Needs Estate Planning
• How Much Money Should You Put in a Trust for Your Children?
• Tax Issues of Inheriting An IRA
• Do You Need Life Insurance?
• The Benefits of Dynasty Estate Planning
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