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Playing with Fire? Having an Annuity in Your Traditional IRA

Playing with Fire? Having an Annuity in Your Traditional IRA

“If your IRA holds an annuity, you may or may not have to include its value when figuring your required minimum distribution.”

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How to Sell Jointly Owned Stock after Your Spouse Passes Away

“How you will be taxed, depends on the state in which you reside.”

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Learn More about Deferred Charitable Gift Annuities

“For those who would like to leave a legacy and include a gift to charity in their estate plan, a Deferred Charitable Gift Annuity is

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What’s Better: A Joint Tenancy or a Trust to Give a Home to a Child?

What’s Better: A Joint Tenancy or a Trust to Give a Home to a Child?

“When leaving a home to your children, you can avoid probate by using either joint ownership or a revocable trust, but which is the better

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Do I Really Make Too Much to Set Up a Roth IRA?

Do I Really Make Too Much to Set Up a Roth IRA?

“If I earn too much to contribute to a Roth IRA, can I still contribute to a traditional IRA and then immediately convert it to

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Tax Break Reminders for the Disabled

Tax Break Reminders for the Disabled

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in 2015 that 53 million adults in the U.S. (about 20%) live with a disability. As tax

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A Few Items to Consider in Your Estate Planning

A Few Items to Consider in Your Estate Planning

If you have an estate with any real assets, you should carefully weigh the risks of failing to make proper estate plans. This is the

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Michigan State Grad and Employee Gives Back through Estate Planning

Michigan State Grad and Employee Gives Back through Estate Planning

Valarie Montgomery may have retired from overseeing Michigan State’s financial operations, but she used her estate plan with her husband Mark to leave a legacy

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The Time for Estate Planning is now

The Time for Estate Planning is now

The (Dodge City, KS) High Plains Journal, in “Estate planning is for everyone,” notes that people spend a lifetime working and building an estate to

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It’s Okay, an Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust is Legal

It’s Okay, an Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust is Legal

Don’t worry; this is a totally legal and valid trust. The “defective” part only describes the fact that it’s not valid for income tax shifting

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ABLE Act a Big Break for the Disabled

ABLE Act a Big Break for the Disabled

The Achieving a Better Life Experience, or ABLE ACT, was passed by Congress in 2014 and lets individuals with disabilities establish special tax-advantage accounts to

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No Estate Planning Means Prince’s Estate Hit with 50% Tax

No Estate Planning Means Prince’s Estate Hit with 50% Tax

Prince’s estate has just a few days left to file an estate tax payment, and the taxes are expected to ultimately take nearly half the

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