Thorough financial planning involves many things. There's budgeting, goal-setting, investing, retirement savings, and estate ...

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Putting your home in a trust can protect your assets while you’re alive and make the ownership transfer easier after your ...

Typically the settlor of a revocable living trust is also the initial trustee until they either resign or are unable to manage the affairs of the trust due to incapacity or death.  While the ...

Signing well-designed last wills and revocable living trusts is just the beginning of a longer process to create an “ideal ...

With the new administration in office, discussions around potentially eliminating the step-up in basis are gaining momentum.

A month after the couple died separately in their New Mexico home, an outside party has been appointed as the representative for their estates.

Here are six simple steps to help you get started: Unlike a revocable trust, an irrevocable living trust cannot be modified once established. Since the assets are no longer in the grantor's ...

It’s been just over a year since lawsuits were levied at the City of Calhoun by landowners and a local environmental group over forever chemicals in the water.

Gene Hackman appointed his wife, Betsy Arakawa Hackman, as the beneficiary to his $80 million estate, but her death opens the ...

Details of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's wills reveal they each wanted to leave their estates to each other. In Hackman's will — obtained by USA TODAY from his probate case in Santa ...