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Navigating the Medicare Enrollment Process

Navigating the Medicare Enrollment Process

Most people heading into retirement know life after work isn’t all shuffleboard on the lido deck. There can be serious money and health care concerns,

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Why Is Elder Care So Stressful?

Why Is Elder Care So Stressful?

Despite the fact that millions of Americans are facing elder care challenges and struggles, there are not a lot of supportive and informative resources that

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Is Your Legacy Mapped Out?

Is Your Legacy Mapped Out?

When people think of estate planning, it is generally thought of only being needed by the ultra-wealthy. Actually though, this isn’t the case. Whether people

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In Anchorage and in Our State, Folks are Making End of Life Plans

In Anchorage and in Our State, Folks are Making End of Life Plans

At Pretty Thrifty, an Eagle River consignment shop, owner Christy Carter helps client Bonny Stark unpack a set of hand-painted china. Stark has had it

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There Is No Digital Account Too Small for Estate Planning

There Is No Digital Account Too Small for Estate Planning

When WGN-TV reporter Randi Belisomo lost her husband Carlos to colon cancer in 2010, she couldn’t fix the cable because he was the only one

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Four Important Dates to Consider When Reviewing Your Estate Plan

Four Important Dates to Consider When Reviewing Your Estate Plan

Whenever clients ask if they need to update their will or trust, the first question back to them is: “When was it created?” If they

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Is Your Mom Lizzie from Ireland? You May Be an Heir to $788,000

Is Your Mom Lizzie from Ireland? You May Be an Heir to $788,000

The BBC program “Heir Hunters” has been working with Finders International, a group that traces missing heirs, to find a rightful claimant. Tracing a long

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Survey Says … “More Estate Planning!”

Survey Says … “More Estate Planning!”

When Craig Evans Carnick accompanied his wife of 46 years to a medical procedure recently, he got a bit of a surprise when he asked

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Get It Together!

Get It Together!

When life gets busy it’s easy to become more passive about managing your bank accounts and credit cards by letting receipts, bills and statements pile

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Conservatorships and Guardianships: What’s the Difference?

Conservatorships and Guardianships: What’s the Difference?

Bobby Brown and Pat Houston will be co-guardians for Bobbi Kristina Brown. Their attorneys said in a statement Friday that Bobby Brown and the sister-in-law

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Will Forgery Suspect Gets Caught

Will Forgery Suspect Gets Caught

On April 28, a victim told police that one of their relatives had died and she had found out that a new will had been

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Is “Crummey Power” Really Good or Really Crumby?

Is “Crummey Power” Really Good or Really Crumby?

There was one estate planner who had a stroke of marketing brilliance a long time ago. He or she decided that we should call death

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