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One attorney calls it the "Get out of Dodge plan"—the best way to keep your assets intact before applying for Medicaid to cover nursing home

Most families I have met over the years needed some general guidelines regarding what to have in place and how to know to accomplish this

Each year millions of Americans ring in the New Year resolved to make better financial choices for the year ahead. Here are five essential tips

Having enough resources to stop working at some point is on most people's 2015 financial planning agenda. Still, most Americans have not taken the time

It’s easy to assume estate plans are intended to deal with future concerns: planning for retirement, providing an inheritance for loved ones, planning for Medicaid

Betsy Fisher and her two brothers inherited their parents' vacation cottage on Michigan's Big Glen Lake 12 years ago after their father died. They love

A recent headline in the New York Daily News, pertaining to the death of film director, Mike Nichols, highlighted the misinformation and confusion regarding how

Deciding who gets Grandma's pie plate or Dad's collection of fishing gear might seem minor and easy as family decisions go. In reality, decisions about

When you mention "gifting" what usually comes to mind is a birthday or Christmas. What I’d like to talk about today is gifting assets to

In survey after survey, Americans have not scored well on retirement literacy tests. But a new survey of Americans ages 60 to 75 says 80

The number of singles is steadily growing. In 1970, slightly more than a third of Americans age 15 and older were single, according to the

Today’s families are a lot different than Ward and June Cleaver. There are more families today with non-traditional situations than ever before. It is very