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How Charitable Giving Acts as a Powerful Estate Planning ToolExplore how charitable giving through estate planning can preserve wealth, reduce taxes, and leave a lasting impact beyond your immediate heirs.
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Understanding Estate Tax ExemptionsMaximize your estate’s tax savings with portability, a strategy allowing spouses to transfer unused exemptions and reduce federal estate tax burdens.
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How Your Estate Plan Could Help Protect You from Incapacity and IllnessProtect your future with an estate plan that safeguards your health, wealth, and loved ones from the risk of injury, illness, and incapacity.
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Using Your Estate Plan to Protect Those Who Matter MostBlended families face unique estate planning challenges, including probate disputes and inheritance risks. Proper planning can help protect assets.
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Pour-Over Wills Are Convenient, But They Don’t Eliminate the Need for ProbatePour-over wills can direct the transfer of your estate assets to an established trust, but they do not eliminate the need for Texas or Arkansas probate.
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Why a Will Won’t Protect Out-of-State Properties From ProbateIf you own homes in more than one state, a will isn’t enough to keep your heirs out of probate. Our Texas estate planning attorneys can help develop a trust.
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Overcoming Psychological and Emotional Hurdles in Estate PlanningEstate Planning is about more than executing documents. We take a look at some of the emotional and psychological hurdles many clients face and how we help them.
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How an Estate Planning Lawyer Can Help You Plan for Diminished CapacityA comprehensive estate plan executed before you have any symptoms of mental incapacity can save you and your family a lot of pain and suffering. Learn more here.
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Revising Your Estate Plan After DivorceOnce your separation is finalized, you should update your Estate Plan to remove your ex as a beneficiary. We explain what steps you will need to take here.
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Are You Prepared for an Emergency? Here’s What Could Happen if You Die or Become Incapacitated Without an Estate PlanWhen you don’t have estate planning documents in place, you risk putting your family through very difficult circumstances. Find out what could happen here.