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Inheritance Trusts, SECURE Act

InSecure Inheritance Trusts

February 20, 2020
by Richard Wright Asset PreservationEstate PlanningInheritance Trusts

In late December of 2019, Congress enacted new legislation designed to allow older Americans additional tax-deductible ways to grow their qualified retirement plans. Unfortunately, this Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the SECUR ...

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Inheritance Trusts, SECURE Act

Reviewing Estate Plans after the SECURE Act

February 20, 2020
by Richard Wright Asset PreservationEstate PlanningInheritance Trusts

After enactment of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act (the SECURE Act) on January 1, 2020, clients now need to re-examine their estate planning with their advisors with regard to their IRAs and other qualified retirement plans. ...

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Charitable Remainder Trusts

August 7, 2019
by Richard Wright Estate PlanningTips & Knowledge

With clients worried about a perceived stock market top in the near term and a potential recession in the next 18 months, it's probably a good time to look at an old favorite in our Estate and Trust planning toolbag: the Charitable Remainder Trust (gener ...

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Nitty-Gritty Details About Charitable Remainder Trust Participants

August 7, 2019
by Richard Wright Asset PreservationEstate PlanningTips & Knowledge

We previously provided an overview of Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs) and suggested that they might be a good strategy to employ to avoid immediate capital gains taxes on appreciated or concentrated marketable securities positions. That overview has s ...

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Additional Charitable Remainder Trust Considerations

August 7, 2019
by Richard Wright Asset PreservationEstate & Trust AdministrationEstate Planning

We previously provided an overview of Charitable Remainder Trusts (“CRTs”) and suggested that now might be a good time to employ this strategy to avoid immediate capital gains taxes on appreciated or concentrated marketable securities positions. That ove ...

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Blog Article Assisted Reproductive Technology and Estate Planning

A.R.T. and Estate Planning

February 25, 2019
by Richard Wright Estate PlanningInheritance TrustsTips & Knowledge

Assisted Reproductive Technology and Estate Planning:  When Science Gets Ahead of the Law Traditionally, Americans and the law have thought of families as mothers, fathers and their children conceived by conventional methods and brought to term i ...

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Federal Gift Tax Considerations

December 14, 2018
by Richard Wright Estate & Trust AdministrationEstate PlanningNews & Updates

Each year, the approaching Holidays spark questions about the federal gift tax and its applicability to year-end gifts.  We all quite naturally want to make gifts in this season so that we can watch our loved ones enjoy them.  For those who can ...

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Personal Independence & Incapacity Care

October 25, 2018
by Richard Wright Estate PlanningIncapacity & Long Term Care PlanningTips & Knowledge

This is our third article about the importance of planning for physical or mental disability.  In a prior article, we focused on financial management planning alternatives for persons facing potential health crises and incapacity.  In our last a ...

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Health Care Decision Planning

Planning & Communicating Health Care Decisions & Surrogate Decision-Making

August 14, 2018
by Richard Wright Incapacity & Long Term Care PlanningTips & Knowledge

As we live longer, we face an increased likelihood of physical or mental disability.  In our last article, we focused on financial management planning alternatives for persons confronted with potential health crises and incapacity.  While financ ...

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Surrogate Financial Management Planning

Surrogate Financial Management Planning with Powers of Attorney and Revocable Trusts

June 21, 2018
by Richard Wright Estate PlanningIncapacity & Long Term Care PlanningTips & Knowledge

In our last article, we focused on the importance of lifetime planning for Mature Single Individuals and some of the impediments they face in accomplishing such planning.  This article focuses on financial management planning alternatives for persons conf ...

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Blog Posts

  • Lifetime Planning for Mature Single Individuals (1 of 4)
  • Surrogate Financial Management Planning with Powers of Attorney and Revocable Trusts (2 of 4)
  • Planning & Communicating Health Care Decisions & Surrogate Decision-Making (part 3 of 4)
  • The Shifting Role of Taxes in Estate Planning
  • Saving State Income Taxes with Moveable Trusts
  • Transferring Motor Vehicles To Living Trusts
  • Securing Your Family’s Future Using Inheritance Trusts: Part 1
  • Securing Your Family’s Future Using Inheritance Trusts: Part 2
  • Securing Your Family’s Future Using Inheritance Trusts: Part 3
  • Protect Your Family From Unforeseen Creditors
  • Becoming A Personal Representative: Begin With The End In Mind
  • Five Tips for Affording the Cost of Long Term Care Insurance

Estate Planning

  • Wills & Living Trusts
  • Estate & Gift Tax Planning
  • Planned Giving
  • Business Planning

Incapacity & Long Term Care Planning

  • Planning For Medicaid & Long Term Care
  • Powers Of Attorney
  • Health Care Powers & Living Wills
  • Special Needs Trusts

Asset Preservation

  • Protection From Unforeseen Creditors
  • Protected Inheritance Trusts
  • Planning For Medicaid & Long Term Care
  • Special Needs Trusts

Estate & Trust Administration

  • Probate
  • Trust Administration
  • Estate & Gift Tax Returns
  • Fiduciary Income Tax Preparation

Processes & Rates

  • Planning Process
  • Estate & Trust Administration Process
  • How We Charge

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