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Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Estate Planning and Transfer on Death Deeds: New Insurance Warnings beginning August 1

A new Minnesota law comes into effect on August 1, 2024, which flags the importance of addressing insurance coverage within your estate plan, especially if your plan utilizes transfer on death deeds. A transfer on death deed...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Passing Assets and Accounts to Your Heirs Is About To Become Much More Difficult

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If you are in the process of long-term estate planning or updating an existing estate plan, the process for passing assets and accounts to your heirs is about to become much more difficult and expensive. Presently, each...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Passing Down Cryptocurrency Assets: Gifting And Estate Planning Considerations

WHAT IS CRYPTOCURRENCY? Cryptocurrency is a digital asset that is created and traded online. Miners (computer operators) establish new units of digital currency and record them on a blockchain, a string of verified public...more

Ruder Ware

Who Gets Your Property if You Die Without a Will?

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Some clients decide to hire an attorney to prepare their estate planning documents because they do not like the default laws in Wisconsin about who gets their property if they die without a will. In Wisconsin, if you die...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Top 5 Reasons that Seniors Should Avoid Sharing a Joint Bank Account with an Adult Child

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As seniors age, many seniors believe that they should add an adult child to their bank account. Purely for ease and convenience, a jointly owned bank account would be a good way for an adult child to monitor a senior’s...more

Downey Brand LLP

Don’t Let Time Run Out on Updating Your Life Insurance Beneficiaries

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Your ex-spouse may take under your life insurance policy if you do not change your beneficiaries and there’s nothing a California probate court can do about it.  So ruled the Court of Appeal last month in Estate of Post...more

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Death and Bitcoin: How Digital Currencies Affect Estate Planning

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It may not be at the forefront of your digital currency interests, but cryptocurrencies have unique characteristics that require careful consideration for estate planning. If you have bitcoin, for example, but your...more

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