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• Category: Asset Protection
  • What are the Biggest Risks to Your Assets?
  • The Steps Involved in Asset Protection
  • Retirement Planning: Consider Assisted Living Costs — Mark Costley
  • What Is A Living Trust?
  • 2015 Lifetime and Annual Gift Tax Exclusion Increases
• Category: Elder Law
  • Estate Planning Attorneys Offer Counselling about IRAs
  • The Elder Law Attorneys of Clarity Legal Group are pleased to be presenting at the Triangle Caregivers Conference in Durham today
  • When Might I Need an Elder Law Attorney?
  • What Is A Living Will?
• Category: Estate Administration
  • Trust Administration is a More Private Way to Transfer Wealth
• Category: Estate Planning
  • Estate Planning Conference Discusses SECURE Act and More
  • The SECURE Act and What It Means for You
  • Are You Cohabiting? If So, Estate Planning Is Essential
  • A Strong Estate Planning Law Firm Helps you Handle Life’s Curves
  • Why You Need to Update Your Estate Plan after a Divorce
  • New Tax Proposal re: Retirement Savings
  • Beneficiary Designations, etc., Aren’t a True Substitute for a Trust
  • Planning to Avoid Too Much SALT
  • You Never Know: Planning for the Unexpected
  • When Should I Update My Estate Plan?
  • What Happens to Your Assets if You Don’t Make an Estate Plan?
  • Planning for Frequent Flyer Miles
  • Should You Talk With Your Loved Ones About Estate Planning?
  • What to Do About Leaving Money to an Heir Who is Financially Irresponsible
  • Planning for the International Client
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 2: Long-Term Care
  • Durham Estate Planning Attorneys Explain Benefits of Advanced Directives
  • 6 Important Estate Planning Considerations – Part 1: Incapacity
  • Common Mistakes When Making a Will
  • Age-Related Retirement Milestones
  • Can Leaving an Equal Inheritance be unfair?
  • Basics of Estate Planning: Lack of Coordination
  • 5 Situations That Should Send you to An Estate Planning Attorney
  • Law in the U.S. can be Participatory
  • Is Probate Always Required?
  • How Can You Provide for Your Pet in Your Estate Plan?
  • How to Find the Right Estate Planning Attorney
  • 5 Power of Attorney Mistakes to Avoid
  • IRS Announces 2016 Estate Tax Adjustment
  • Is North Carolina Probate Always Required
  • Creating a North Carolina Basic Estate Plan
  • The 2015 Lifetime Estate Tax Exclusion & Annual Gift Tax
• Category: Estate Tax
  • Gift and Estate Taxes – the Basics
• Category: General
  • My Loved One Just Passed Away. What Steps Do I Need to Take?
  • The Top Reasons for Avoiding Probate
• Category: Incapacity Planning
  • Are There Alternatives for Managing Property When Someone becomes Incapacitated?
  • How a Chapel Hill Living Trust Attorney Helps You Plan for Incapacity
  • How Can Durham Area Elder Law Attorneys Help You Plan for Incapacity?
• Category: Inheritance
  • Who Should Manage My Child’s Inheritance?
• Category: IRA
• Category: Legacy Planning
  • How Is Legacy Planning Different from Estate Planning?
  • What Is Legacy Planning?
• Category: Legal Education
• Category: Life Insurance
  • Can Life Insurance Be Paid to a Trust?
• Category: Medicaid in North Carolina
  • 5 Things You Need to Know about Qualifying for Medicaid As a Senior
  • North Carolina Nursing Homes Could be Kicked Out of the Medicare Program
  • What is Considered a Countable Asset for Medicaid?
  • Key Things a Chapel Hill Medicaid Attorneys Wants You to Know
  • How Medicaid Attorneys Help Plan for Nursing Home Care
  • North Carolina May Have to Repay $20 Million in Medicaid Reimbursements
  • Do You Need to Include Medicaid Planning in Your Estate Plan?
  • Is Medicaid Only For the Poor?
• Category: Medicare
  • What Is An Elder Law Attorney?
• Category: Power of Attorney
• Category: Probate
  • 5 Things You Need to Do Immediately If You Are the Executor
  • Why an Executor Should Hire a Probate Lawyer
  • What are Some of the Different Ways to Avoid Probate?
  • Why Avoid Probate?
  • What Executors Must Know About the Probate Process
  • Can Probate Be Avoided?
• Category: Retirement Planning
• Category: Revocable Living Trust
  • Why Would I Want A Revocable Living Trust?
• Category: Special Needs Planning
  • Understanding the Types of Special Needs Trusts
• Category: Trust
  • The Ultimate Caregiver Guide
  • What is a Revocable Living Trust?
  • How Trust Lawyers Help Trust Beneficiaries in the Triangle
  • Why work with a Trust Attorney when Creating a Living Trust?
  • Do Trust Lawyers Only Help Wealthy People?
  • 5 Ways Durham Chapel Hill Trust Attorneys Help You Protect Your Family
  • The Value of a Living Trust
  • What Is Involved in Creating a Trust?
• Category: Trust Administration
  • How to Pick Your Trustee
  • What to Know Before Agreeing to be a Trust Administrator
  • Your Trust Administration Checklist
• Category: Trusts
  • Using an Asset Protection Trust as part of your Estate Plan?
  • How Can I Use a Trust to Protect My Minor Child’s Inheritance?
  • What Is A Special Needs Trust?
• Category: Wills
  • I Was Appointed Executor of a Will of a Decedent. Now What?
  • Can’t I Just Save Money by Using a DIY Will?