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What If My Spouse Doesn’t Use Long-Term Care Insurance?

Long-term care insurance helps pay for healthcare costs that aren’t covered by Medicare or conventional health policies.
07/01/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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What Is a TOD Beneficiary?

A person named as a transfer on death (TOD) beneficiary for an account will receive the assets held in it when the account owner dies.
06/30/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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What Is Justin Timberlake Doing with His Estate Planning?

Justin Timberlake is cashing his chips in at the window.
06/29/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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How Do Estate Plans and Trusts Work?

In this article, we will address two terms which some people use interchangeably, but which are very different things: living trusts and estate plans.
06/28/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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What are Early Signs of Parkinson’s?

Some signs of Parkinson’s disease are ones most of us recognize, such as tremor and trouble walking. However, very early signs of the disease, which can appear a decade or more before the disease presents in more obvious physical forms, are often mistaken for something else. They can also be mistaken for regular signs of aging.
06/27/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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How Do IRAs and 401(k)s Fit into Estate Planning?

Investing for retirement is one of the most important steps you can take toward building a secure financial future for you and your family. The sooner you can start, the better. Contributing to a retirement account can help you work toward your goals and may provide tax advantages to boost your progress.
06/24/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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What Sparks the Contesting of a Will?

Some people draft wills or trusts to ensure that the loved ones they will eventually leave behind own a piece of the properties the former will be leaving behind in case of their death.
06/23/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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Does a Supplemental Needs Trust have an Impact on Government Benefits?

For disabled persons receiving financially based government benefits, supplemental needs trusts (‘SNTs’) can safeguard benefits and serve as an effective estate planning tool.
06/22/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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Why Is Beneficiary Designation Important?

When you set up your estate plan it is important to coordinate the legal planning documents that you or you and your attorney create with the document provided by your retirement account custodian and/or your life insurance carrier called a ‘Designation of Beneficiary.’
06/21/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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How Can I Help My Family After I Pass Away?

Estate planning is always a difficult subject to deal with, because who wants to arrange things for when they die?
06/20/22 • by: Emily Hicks Law, PLLC
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