It’s always hard to plan for an event you would rather put off and, well, death certainly falls into that category for many of us. If you’ve procrastinated on giving much thought to the particulars you are hardly alone, but a well-thought-out estate plan is one of the...
If you’ve ever had a friend, child, or even grandchild effortlessly solve a technology problem that had frustrated you endlessly, you can probably empathize with the millions of Americans who forgo estate planning because they fear it is highly complicated and...
Though I hardly consider myself a follower of the tawdry celebrity stories that come out of Hollywood, they sometimes prove to hold valuable lessons for us all. I’ve written recently of the passing of Casey Kasem and Robin Williams, two polar opposites when it came to...
A Trust is Like a Box from Kimberly Hanlon on Vimeo. Estate planning can appear daunting, and even confusing. Even once you’ve overcome any mental barriers associating it with your or a loved one’s mortality and begin to think about planning in earnest, you may be...
How much wealth will be passed on over the next fifty-some years? The Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy has recently released new research revealing a remarkable transfer of wealth, potentially greater than the sum of all that transferred...
If you were to judge them by its popular portrayal in television and film, you might think that estate planning is a domain reserved for the super-rich–or even villainous misers who care for nothing more than their monetary fortune. Like many depictions in...
