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- Having Fun? Then You’re Likely Retired!
- What is Probate?
- The Problem with Probate
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- Intestate Succession
- Partial Intestacy Explained
- What Happens if You Die Without a Will?
- Avoiding Probate
- Financial Power of Attorney Explained
- What a Will Can’t Do
- Prepaid Burial Planning: Is it really a good idea?
- To Disinherit, Reduce a Bequest, or Choose Another Strategy?
- Discussing Bequests with Your Heirs
- Health Care at End of Life is Your Decision
- Category: Gift Tax Exclusion
- Category: Incapacity Planning
- What Happens if it is Too Late for a Power of Attorney?
- What Kinds of Healthcare Directives Do You Need?
- What Happens if You Don’t Create a Durable Power of Attorney?
- Vermont Residents Describe What it is Like to Live with Alzheimer’s
- Who Should Get Help With Inheritance Tax Planning?
- What is a Springing Power of Attorney and Why Do You Want One?
- Does a Durable Power of Attorney Give Authority to Make Health Care Decisions?
- What Documents Should be Part of Your Living Will?
- Should I Have a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care?
- DOJ Unveils Online Complaint Form for Disabled
- For-Profit Hospice Providers: Double Edged Sword
- Incapacity Planning in Vermont
- Filing for Guardianship
- Tragic Reminder of Importance of Advanced Directives
- Guardianship in Essex Junction Vermont: Four Mistakes to Avoid
- What is a Durable Power of Attorney?
- Protecting Yourself against Mental Disability
- Power of Attorney: Putting Your Life in Another Man’s Hands
- Creating an Advance Health Care Directive
- Essential Incapacity Planning Documents
- Category: legacy planning
- How a Serious Illness Could Hurt Your Legacy
- How Your Family Situation Affects Your Plans for Your Legacy
- Considerations in Legacy Planning
- Inheritance Planning: Consider the Recipients
- What Is the Difference Between Legacy Planning and Estate Planning?
- When Families Battle Over Sentimental Assets
- Succession Planning, Cookie and the Three Sons
- Category: Legal Education
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- Benefits of Burlington Trust Administration Over Probate
- Five Reasons to Create a Trust
- A Living Trust is Key if You’re the Family Breadwinner
- 4 Reasons to Create a Living Trust
- Common Living Trust Myths
- Who Should be the Trustee of a Living Trust?
- How Can You Learn About Living Trust Benefits?
- Can a Revocable Living Trust Be used for Asset Protection?
- Steps to Create a Living Trust
- Six Key Reasons You Need A Living Trust
- Vermont Living Trusts and Avoiding Probate
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- 5 Things Burlington Medicaid Planning Attorneys Want You to Know
- How to Make Sure You Get High Quality Nursing Home Care
- Why Do So Many People Need to Make a Medicaid Plan?
- Can You Give Away Your Wealth to Get Medicaid?
- Key Differences Between Medicare and Medicaid Coverage for Nursing Home Care
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- Can I Get Medicaid if I Give My Money to My Kids?
- Does Long-Term Care Insurance Actually Work?
- Shortage of Primary Care Doctors Looms for Vermont
- How Much Does Long-Term Care Actually Cost?
- How Does Medicaid Estate Recovery Work?
- How an Inheritance Can Impact Vermont Medicaid Eligibility
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- How to Prepare to Meet with a Burlington Medicaid Lawyer
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- Transitional Care Helps Discharged Vermont Patients
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- 10 Percent of Americans Risk Their Health – Here’s Why
- Long-Standing Problems with Medicaid, Medicare
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- What Probate Lawyers Want Executors to Know
- What Executors Must Know About the Probate Process
- What if I Fail In My Executor Duties
- What Does it Mean to Probate Will?
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- Why Would You Want to Avoid Vermont Probate?
- Do You Need a Burlington Probate Attorney for Small Estates?
- Can a Probate Attorney Help Defend a Will That is Challenged?
- Is Probate Always Required?
- What Is Probate in Vermont?
- Should You Pay Your Executor?
- Probate Means an Orderly Transfer Process
- Category: Retirement Planning
- 4 Signs You’re Not Ready to Retire
- What Kinds of IRAs Should You Consider During Retirement Planning?
- Vermont Senator & Presidential Candidate Wants to Expand Social Security
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- Are 401 (k) Plans in Trouble?
- Inheriting an IRA
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- What Your IRA Beneficiaries Need to Know
- Retirement Planning in Essex Junction: Reverse Mortgages and Seniors – Not the Cure-All
- Panic in Detroit
- What You Need to Know About Social Security Survivors Benefits
- Category: Special Needs Planning
- Category: Taxes in Vermont
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- Category: Trusts
- How a Living Trust Attorney Helps You Protect Your Privacy
- Why Your Heirs Would Prefer Living Trusts
- Who Should You Put in Charge of Trust Administration?
- What to Know About Being a Trustee
- What to Know About Being a Trust Beneficiary
- 3 Ways a Living Trust Can Benefit You
- What if You Make the Wrong Type of Trust?
- Do You Need to be Rich to Create a Living Trust?
- Revocable vs. Irrevocable Trust: Which is Right for You?
- 3 Benefits of a Testamentary Trust
- Signs You Need to Make a Spendthrift Trust
- What are Pet Trusts?
- Limitations of a Living Trust
- 5 Common Mistakes When Creating a Trust
- How Can You Prepare for Creating a Trust?
- What is a Testamentary Trust and Do You Need One?
- How to Prepare to Meet with a Burlington Trust Lawyer
- Who is in Charge of Trust Administration?
- How to Ensure an Asset Protection Trust Really Keeps Your Assets Safe
- Revocable Trusts: Understand the Limitations
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Revocable Trusts
- Coach Dean Smith and the Revocable Trust
- Why Detailed Pet Trusts are Important
- Do You Need a Marital Deduction Trust?
- Free Report: No, You Can’t Leave Your Estate to FIDO
- Free Report: Vermont Revocable Living Trust – Why It’s Not Always Enough
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in Vermont: HIPAA
- Trusting Trusts in Estate Planning
- What is a Pour Over Will ?
- What is a Qualified Terminable Interest Property Trust?
- A Living Trust Can Protect Your Family
- Category: Will
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- When is a Will Not Enough?
- The Biggest Problems with a Do It Yourself Will
- Do You Need to Include Every Asset When Planning a Will?
- Are Wills vs. Trusts Better for Securing Your Legacy?
- Should You Discuss Your Last Will & Testament with Your Family?
- What if your DIY Will Is Not Enforced?
- The Role of a Will in Your Estate Planning Efforts
- Why the Basic Will in Essex Junction is Not Enough: Part One
- Contesting a Will in Essex Junction: Can Beneficiaries Contest a Will?
- Understanding a Living Will in Vermont
- Why Can’t I Write My Own Will?
- Common Reasons Family Members Contest Wills
- Your Choice of a Guardian and Your Children’s Future
- Are You Too Young for a Will
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- What are some common Medicaid planning mistakes?
- Why is it important for seniors to know eligibility requirements for Medicaid?
- Why do you need an estate planning attorney?
- Why is it important to choose a guardian for your child?
- What is intestate succession?
- What happens if you die without a will?
- How can you avoid probate?
- What are the responsibilities of the executor?
- What are some problems with probate?
- What is probate?
