Parents who have spent a lifetime saving often want a simple way to help a daughter pay bills, avoid court delays, and ...

One of the most important aspects of estate planning is choosing who you’d like to be your beneficiaries. A beneficiary is someone who is named to receive a financial gift from an estate or a specific ...

If you want to leave your individual retirement account (IRA) to your grandchildren, you should know that minors can’t inherit an IRA directly. Instead, a custodian should be appointed until the minor ...

DALLAS — A will is one of those things that a lot of us put off as long as possible. All that paperwork, those details, the intimidating legalese, and thinking about dying –they’re all good reasons to ...

Elder law attorney Harry Margolis explains why beneficiary designations don’t protect assets and where Medicaid estate ...

Choosing and properly designating a beneficiary is a key step in making sure your assets go to the person or people you want them to go to. A beneficiary is the person or entity who will get your ...

In a recent article in Financial Planning, retirement plan expert Ed Slott, reminded those who participate in company retirement plans to make sure they name beneficiaries. In the absence of a ...

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If an IRA is inherited through an estate, the distribution rules for the estate apply, even if the IRA is later transferred to a person. Distribution rules depend on whether the IRA owner died before ...

If you have a life insurance policy, you have named a beneficiary—usually a family member who will receive a payment based on the life insurance policy after your death. You may have also named a ...