Is It Time To Plan A Family Meeting?
With the current pandemic, election year, and unsettled economy, now is the best time to consider scheduling an annual family meeting.
Tips About Gifting
Lifetime gifting, to children or others, has been a popular technique to reduce estate taxes for a long time. Currently, with estate tax exemption amounts exceeding $11 Million per person, most people do not have an urgent tax savings motivation for making gifts. However, this doesn’t mean that sticking to a gifting program is without […]
A Prediction about Estate Planning in the Near Term
As trusted advisors, we see it as our job to alert you to strategies that can help build and protect your family’s wealth and the lifestyle it supports. From a macro perspective, we see an estate tax that takes essentially no wealth from the vast majority of families, historically high federal deficits, and a real possibility […]
How To Protect Your Assets From Creditors
Protecting your assets from creditors (“asset protection”) is a topic you don’t think much about until a triggering event, and then it can jump to the top of your priorities. The triggering event may be an accident with personal injuries on your property, a contract commitment turning bad, or involvement in a financial project where […]
Why You Should Have a Family Meeting
Many folks have not considered holding a family meeting in a slightly more formal setting like one of your advisor’s offices. There can be many advantages to these. Confidence is an important outcome that we talk about here. Do your spouse and children know what to do if you are not there? Whether they articulate […]
Succession Planning: Overcoming Procrastination and Creating Confidence
Succession Planning: Overcoming Procrastination and Creating Confidence If any of these sound like you, then you may be an entrepreneur who is reluctant to plan for the future of your business: (1) Need for control; (2) Strong work ethic; (3) Immortality complex. We have techniques to help business owners overcome their procrastination about succession planning. […]