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Volume Ten • Number Two • February 2012


Wealth Transfer, Gifting & Crummey Trusts


Generational Generosity

Estate Planning Mistakes    Would you rather transfer your wealth to the IRS or to your loved ones? If you answered the IRS, then disregard this article. On the other hand, if you answered your loved ones, then read on. We will review some of the relevant tax rules for lifetime gifting and then examine two common transfer methods (along with a few of their potential pitfalls).

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Crummey Trusts

Family Feuds

    There are many non-tax benefits to making lifetime gifts to loved ones, aside from the obvious tax benefits. For example, what better way to preview the financial maturity of your loved ones with an inheritance in the future than through a dress rehearsal in the present … while you are still in the audience?

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Is it Time to Review Your Plan?

   Proper estate planning is a process, not simply a one-time event. Therefore, it only makes sense to periodically review your planning goals and legal instruments. Review this list of life changes that could alter your estate-planning needs. If you notice some areas that might apply to you or your family, it may be time for an estate plan check-up.

  1. Marriage, remarriage or divorce
  2. Death of a spouse
  3. Substantial change in estate size
  4. Death or incapacity of an executor, trustee or guardian
  5. Move to another state
  6. Acquisition of property in another state
  7. Birth or adoption of a child or grandchild
  8. Serious illness of a family member
  9. Change in business interest or retirement
  10. Change in insurability for life insurance
  11. Marriage or divorce of a beneficiary
  12. Change in beneficiary attitudes
  13. Financial irresponsibility of a child
  14. Change in tax law
  15. More than two years since review of plan with attorney

 

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