How A Negligent Rule of Thumb Causes Poor Divorce and Estate Planning Decisions

An important consideration in divorce and estate planning that often gets ignored, underappreciated, or just poorly evaluated is the relative comparison of different account types: tax free accounts, tax deferred accounts, and taxable accounts.  While many people tend to think of $100,000 as $100,000, the account type in which the money resides can make a [...]

The Perils of Shared Home Ownership By Families and Friends

The idea of buying a vacation home together with friends has plenty of appeal.  Splitting the costs among multiple families makes the financial burden more reasonable.  Shared home ownership can make that desirable vacation home, which would otherwise be unaffordable for any one family, affordable as a group.  Gone would be the days of searching [...]

Protecting Children and Grandchildren with an IRA Trust

One of the most challenging roles of parenting is finding the proper balance between protecting children too much and not enough.  In the early years, we cover electrical outlets, protect household edges with soft bumpers, and spend hours analyzing all the safety features of car seats.  Parental protection then evolves to monitoring what our children [...]

Go to Top