Putting your affairs in order for retirement is a perfect reason to have a living or revocable trust. The ideas in this post also work if you have been diagnosed with an illness that will weaken your mind or body ...
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If you:

• don't have kids under 18 or other special needs beneficiaries,
• don't own property in more than one state, and
• don't have a particular reason to keep your will private,

you don't need a living or revocable ...
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For an article about some of the difficulties that will be associated with Prince's estate administration, see this Slate article ...
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News reports have surfaced that Prince died without a will. I don't want to say too much too soon but here's an interesting question. Prince had some very particular ideas about how to manage his artistic repertoire. A will or ...
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The Estate of Sarah D. Holliday Tax Court case mentioned briefly last month was a win for the IRS but hasn't generated much buzz in the estate planning community. Essentially, the Tax Court held that the late Ms. Holliday's family ...
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The IRS must have been celebrating more than St. Patrick's Day yesterday. The Tax Court gave it a rare victory and held that a family limited partnership had not been formed for any non-tax reasons and hadn't been operated with ...
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