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Gifting to Your Children: Direct Gifts or an Irrevocable Trust?
What would you want to be true about a large gift to your child five years after you make it? That you can see how they handled it, or that […]
400 Acres, Three Siblings, and One Brother Who Needs the Land to Make a Living
Divide 400 acres three ways and you get 133 acres apiece. That sounds tidy until you notice that one sibling farms for a living, one wants to cash out, and […]
Before You Insure Against Trustee Theft, Fix the Trust
Picture the trust you have spent a lifetime funding. Your kids are the beneficiaries. The trustee is your cousin Tom, the one in the family who knows a little about […]
The IRS Number That Decides Whether Your Family Loan Is a Gift
There is a number the IRS publishes every month that settles most of the debate about lending money to your kids. It is called the applicable federal rate, or AFR, […]
If You Could Write One Rule Into Your Kids’ Trust, What Would It Be?
Sit with that question for a minute, because most parents have an answer ready. It is usually some version of make sure they still want to work. A listener building […]
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