Estate planning

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?

Younger investors are surprisingly eager for financial guidance — even estate planning — from advisors willing to expand their services and worldviews.

The deal values closely held Fisher Investments at $12.75 billion and is part of the founder's estate planning, according to the firm.

A client plans to leave an inheritance only for their biological children, icing out the adopted ones. Is their financial advisor obligated to help — or speak out?

These issues loom especially large for the LGBTQ client base, which is the focus of a new national initiative launched by financial advisors, lawyers and other professionals.

Here's a smart way to add long-lasting value to your client relationships.

A decision backing the surviving shareholder in a family business could have carried major tax implications to succession plans. Instead, SCOTUS backed the IRS.

The Section 121 exclusion and the step-up in basis are well known to financial advisors and tax professionals, but their clients will need to plan carefully to net the biggest potential savings.

Changes in residency, qualified personal residence trusts and other methods cited by experts carry big savings — with some caveats.

A professional brings objectivity to dicey conversations between relatives as well as experience navigating the substantial work involved with transferring assets, experts say.

Proposals to crack down on private placement insurance contracts aren't close to becoming law. Here's how advisors and their clients can use them for the time being.