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    Why New York Estate Planning is Important for Entrepreneurs

    Entrepreneurs share specific characteristics: motivation, creativity, persuasiveness, risk tolerance, versatility, vision, innovation, communication and collaboration, flexibility, and decisiveness. These individuals create new businesses bearing most of the risks and reaping most of the rewards if successful. Because of their innate attributes, an estate planning process can be markedly different from…

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    It’s Essential to Communicate Your Estate Plan Goals with Family

    Preparing for a successful transfer of wealth to your loved ones begins with a comprehensive estate plan. However, many of us often overlook the crucial part of communicating our estate plan to family and heirs. Even with a thorough and up-to-date estate plan, your family may experience emotional or financial…

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    How to Divide Assets Between Beneficiaries

    The simplest option when it comes to leaving property to your children is to divide everything equally. That is the clear choice when all your children are doing equally well. But if not – if, for example, your son is a starving artist with mouths to feed and your childless…

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    Special Needs Planning For Your Loved One

    Sometimes referred to as supplemental needs trusts, third-party special needs trusts are estate planning tools for parents of children with disabilities and the elderly. This type of trust will receive assets from you or another benefactor expressly for that person with a disability. Goals include: leaving funds for your child’s…

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    The Risk of Online Do-It-Yourself Estate Plans

    We hear this question all the time: “Can’t I just grab a will off the internet, do a transfer-on-death deed for my land, put my kids on my bank account, and be done with my estate plan?” It’s just not a good idea. For the plan to work as you…

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    How to Handle Cryptocurrency in Your Estate Plan

    As many as 46 million Americans own the most popular and well-known crypto asset, Bitcoin, according to Florida Today. Bitcoin was created in January 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. This digital or virtual currency is held secure using cryptography, making it nearly impossible to double-spend…

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