Estate planning

Expertly guiding a client through the divorce process can forge long-term bonds that foster practice growth.

The handoff of a company carries important tax implications alongside a plethora of succession challenges. Here's what financial advisors need to talk about with clients.

How do financial advisors work with elder law attorneys or aging life care managers to support your clients?

Tax professionals are calling for changes to the proposal, even though they welcome clarifications they have been waiting on for decades.

New rules for IRA beneficiaries, the expiration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and guidelines for qualified stock make these strategies especially relevant.

Art loans function as lines of credit, so clients draw on them and pay them back as they can.

Planners can help savers avoid higher taxes, IRS penalties and Medicare headaches by guiding them through the strict guidelines for the accounts.

Baseball cards, sneakers, cars, antiques and stuffed animals could sell for a lot of money, or such collections could be a time suck and an emotional drain.

Clients have several options to tackle this unpleasant topic, but for advisors, the best time to start the discussion is now.

It's important for advisors to develop a relationship with both spouses from the outset, long before an unexpected death.

Financial advisors who specialize in estate planning say regular clients can learn from these messy celebrity situations.

By blending empathy, pragmatism, prompt action and effective communication, financial planners can have an outsized impact on clients with dementia and their families.

For financial advisors, tax professionals and their clients, the opportunities and acronyms look endless. Three experts explain the key questions to consider.

The decisions indicated that justices will use far stricter scrutiny of government regulations moving forward, and some cases dealt a direct impact right away.

Low-interest debt backed by an asset can be good, but high-interest, unsecured credit cards are not; however, reducing high-interest credit card debt should be prioritized.

Estate attorneys are creating trusts to extend wealth until people who get cryonically preserved can be revived — even if it's hundreds of years later.

Art carries higher rates than most investments, but financial advisors and their clients can tap into trusts, charitable donations, loss harvesting and the stepped-up basis.

When your clients are divorcing, you need to figure out two things: Which one is your client, and who is their attorney?

Just 9% of wills take pets into account. Here's how advisors can have a conversation with clients to ensure pets are properly included in their estate plans

An advisor in Los Angeles wants to help his clients with their estate planning, which requires thinking about death. How can he broach the subject without scaring them?