Estate
Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
Put It in a Letter
A letter of instruction provides additional and more personal information regarding your estate.
Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous
Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?
What to Do After Losing a Loved One
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed as the executor of a loved one’s estate. Here’s steps to make the process more manageable.
Trusts As Part of Your Financial Plan
Trust Strategists with Baird Trust, discuss how different types of trusts can fit into your overall financial plan.
4 Steps to Protecting a Child with Disabilities
Planning for a child with special needs can be complicated, confusing, and even overwhelming.
Problems with Probate
Probate can be a completely public process, or it can be managed to include as little information as possible.
A Primer on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
Irrevocable life insurance trusts can be important tools that may accomplish a number of estate objectives.
How To Talk Through Transitioning a Family Business
Five strategies to navigate difficult conversations around succession planning and help bring a family together.
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Principles of Preserving Wealth
How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.
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Safeguard Your Digital Estate
If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?
Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart
Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?
When Do You Need a Will?
When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.
4 Elements of an Estate Strategy
Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.
Estate Management 101
A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.
When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust
A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.
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