Effective estate management enables you to manage your affairs during your lifetime and control the distribution of your wealth after death. An effective estate strategy can spell out your healthcare wishes and ensure that they're carried out – even if you are unable to communicate. It can even designate someone to manage your financial affairs should you be unable to do so.

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When Special Care Is Needed: The Special Needs Trust

A special needs trust helps care for a special needs child when you’re gone.

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Principles of Preserving Wealth

How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.

Safeguard Your Digital Estate

If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?

Trends in Charitable Giving

Some people may want a more advanced gifting strategy that can maximize their gift and generate potential tax benefits.

4 Elements of an Estate Strategy

Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.

• Articles

  Managing an Inheritance

  A windfall from a loved one can be both rewarding and complicated.

  Test Your Estate Strategy Knowledge

  Estate management can help ensure that your assets are transferred according to your wishes while managing tax issues.

  A Living Trust Primer

  Living trusts are popular, but their appropriateness will depend upon your individual needs and objectives.

  Understanding the Alternate Valuation Date

  Executors can value the estate on the date of death, or on its six-month anniversary —the “Alternate Valuation Date."

  Critical Estate Documents

  Sound estate management includes creating financial and healthcare documents. Here's an inside look.

  Yours, Mine, and Ours: Estate Strategies for Second Marriage

  Second marriages are a trigger event to revisit any existing estate strategies.

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• Calculators

  What Is My Current Net Worth?

  Use this calculator to estimate your net worth by adding up your assets and subtracting your liabilities.

  What Is My Life Expectancy?

  Estimate how many years you may need retirement assets or how long to provide income to a surviving spouse or children.

  What's My Potential Estate Tax?

  This calculator helps estimate your federal estate tax liability.

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• Presentations

  Principles of Preserving Wealth

  How federal estate taxes work, plus estate management documents and tactics.

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• Videos

  Exit Strategies of the Rich and Famous

  Estate conservation is too important to put off. Do you have a smart exit strategy?

  Estate Management 101

  A will may be only one of the documents you need—and one factor to consider—when it comes to managing your estate.

  Safeguard Your Digital Estate

  If you died, what would happen to your email archives, social profiles and online accounts?

  Charitable Giving: Smart from the Heart

  Do you have causes that you want to support with donations?

  When Do You Need a Will?

  When do you need a will? The answer is easy: Right Now.

  4 Elements of an Estate Strategy

  Learn about the importance of having an estate strategy in this helpful and informative video.

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