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- Creepy Crawlies In Your Property
By: Michael challiner | - Some-one said you're never more than a certain distance away from a rat. I can't remember what the distance was, or who actually said it, but I certainly don't like to think about it. Where ever you live, you can have trouble with pests and these infestations are becoming more and more common.
Your household insurance is likely to cover the damage which these pests cause, although you should check it out and find out just what you're covered for. Rats and mice chew away at things ...
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- Medical Insurance - The Whole Truth
By: Michael challiner | - Health insurance is available in three basic guises - although there are a great many policies out there under various names. They range from simple cash plans, where you receive a cash pay out when you receive certain types of health care, plus a set amount per night if you're hospitalized, right through to fully comprehensive policies.
One thing is important; whatever sort of cover you take out. If you're asked to fill in a form relating your previous health history, it's vitall ...
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- Medical Insurance At A Price
By: Michael challiner | - Simple cash plans are easy to understand and they offer the cheapest cover. They help with the costs of routine medical care, such as visits to the opticians, dentists or hospital visits by providing a lump sum to cover such eventualities. This is subject to a set limit. There is also a sum allowed for each night spent as an in-patient in hospital, where this is privately funded or NHS.
Sharing the costs of your medical treatment with your insurer is another option. By agreeing to ...
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- Why A Will Is Necessary
By: Michael challiner | - Failure to leave a will can cause all sorts of problems for those you leave behind. It ensures that your wishes will be carried out and avoid any doubt about who gets what. It's all too easy to think about writing a will and in fact give it a lot of thought for a while, but not making up your mind about the "odds and ends" make put it to the back of your mind when something else crops up.
If you are a parent of a child under 18 it's particularly important to leave clear instructio ...
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- Wills - Making Sense Of It
By: Michael challiner | - If you don't have a valid will, you have no control over how your assets will be handled in the event of your death. Lots of people mean to make a will but never get around to it and it causes a great deal of inconvenience and even hardship to anyone you leave behind. There's no mystery to the making of a will. There are some circumstances where it should be viewed as essential. If you have no relatives, for instance, then your worldly goods could go to the government in the end.
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- Protect Your Estate With Wills And Trusts
By: Ozeme J Bonnette | - While here on earth, we are meant to be a blessing to others. However, our job is not done there. We are also supposed to leave our mark behind when we are gone. 2 Corinthians 12:14 tells us to provide for our children. But Proverbs takes it one step further to include future generations. Proverbs 13:22 reads, "A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous." (NIV)
It is important for us to plan ahead. When Ki ...
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- Are Protected Trust Deeds An Answer To Personal Insolvency?
By: Gordon Goodfellow | - A protected Trust Deed is an instrument to help an individual out of an insolvency crisis. It is lesser known than the more popular IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) and runs for approximately three years as opposed to the IVA's five. But many aspects of the two are the same or very similar, and both share exactly the same purpose.
Protected Trust Deeds carry none of the stigma of bankruptcy or sequestration, whose awful aftermath the PTD was set up to avoid. A PTD is a legal ...
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- Are Protected Trust Deeds The Answer To Personal Insolvency?
By: Gordon Goodfellow | - A protected Trust Deed is an instrument to help an individual out of an insolvency crisis. It is lesser known than the more popular IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) and runs for approximately three years as opposed to the IVA's five. But many aspects of the two are the same or very similar, and both share exactly the same purpose.
Protected Trust Deeds carry none of the stigma of bankruptcy or sequestration, whose awful aftermath the PTD was set up to avoid. A PTD is a legal document ...
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- Living Trusts For Estate Planning
By: Steven R. Bennett | - If you decide to use Living Trusts in your estate plan, your estate will likely avoid the expense and delay of probate, and your privacy will not be impaired by public records of your estate assets or beneficiaries. However, there are several countervailing considerations as well, and the rules are somewhat complex. This article provides an overview of the main considerations.
Trust Declarations
The Living Trust Declarations set forth your basic plans for disposition of ...
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- Investing In Stocks And There Advantages And Disadvantages
By: expo09 | - There are a number of different types of investment available to todays investor. One of these is buying into a company by purchasing stocks or shares.
When you buy stocks in a company you are essentially buying part of the company. You will receive a certain number of shares, depending on how many you have bought. The amount of profit or loss a company make will then affect the worth of your shares. The share value can go up or down, and you can sell at any time. So if you sel ...
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- Wills, Pets And Soaring Inheritance Tax
By: Michael challiner | - Some people say if you make a will you can make sure that no inheritance tax will be charged on your estate, as if a blanket rule applies. In actual fact some estates won't involve inheritance tax as they are under the allowance. Others may be less straightforward and we'd always advise you to consult a professional before attempting to sort things out for yourself.
If inheritance tax is due, your executors would have six months, from the end of the month in which you die, to sett ...
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- Inheritance Tax, Intestacy And More
By: Michael challiner | - Nowadays, when the term "married couple" crops up, this refers to registered civil partners as well as married couples. This includes civil partners of the same sex. If you don't leave a will, then unless your partner falls into this category, they won't inherit anything. No matter how long the relationship and the period of co-habiting.
There will be talk of Nil Rate Bands when it comes to Inheritance Tax. Although Inheritance Tax has its complications, there are basic rules whic ...
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- Don't Leave A Mess - Leave A Valid Will
By: Michael challiner | - More and more wills are being contested. The number of court cases in relation to will and inheritance disputes rose by 175 per cent in one 12 month period recently. Most disputes are settled without actually getting to the court stage, so the actual figures are very much higher than those published.
The reason for this surge in disputes seems to be a change in the way of living. Family structures are much changed from the old one partner for life and 2.5 children. It's not unusua ...
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- First, Or Last, Will And Testament
By: Michael challiner | - Probably the first time in your life that you should consider making a will is when you get onto the property ladder for the first time. Even if you are not married or in a civil partnership, you would want a say in whatever equity you have in your home. If your parents are comfortably off you may decide you'd like your estate to pass to your siblings or partner.
Moving on from this, you may decide to enter a long term relationship. If you're not legally attached by marriage or ci ...
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- Could Heir Hunters Be Coming Your Way
By: Michael challiner | - If someone dies without leaving a will, there's a certain way which their estate is handled, according to the laws of intestacy. In most cases it's a long drawn out process but something that has to be done. The fact is that, although the people nearest to them, but not related, may not get anything at all (even if the deceased person would have wished them to benefit) there are enough close relatives to be able to sort out the distribution of the estate. We stress though, that this may not have ...
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- Learn How To Write A Will
By: Ranju Kumar | - Will is an important legal document that is to be needed after your death. If you pass on without a will, then the residing state can look after how your property gets distributed to your children. Your will should be written legibly because what cannot be read cannot be enforced.
Most of the people do not need a lawyer to draft a will. You can also make your own Will by following a few guidelines. A model document in the form of our free will form can then be used to compile your ...
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- How To Choose A Unit Trust
By: sturat.mitchel | - For many people with available assets who are shopping for secure and unobtrusive ways to invest, unit trusts may be a solution. They are generally considered to be a safe investment avenue, as the risks as well as the profits are shared mutually among the pool of investors who hold interest in them.
These trusts most often are stock market or money market instruments into which any number of investors may pool their funds to buy shares, or units. These trusts are open-ended, wher ...
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- How Can A Testamentary Trust Assist You?
By: Klublok Chung | - One of the inquiries that commonly comes to the minds of people composing their testaments is, "what is the best way to allocate my assets?". A testamentary trust is one choice, which gives the beneficiaries many benefits, with tax advantages being the most notable. This isn't in any way a "one size fits all" situation; meaning a testamentary trust won't always be the best option. However, if you're searching for a means to provide the maximum number of benefits for family members, this option i ...
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- The Several Types Of Estate Trusts
By: Klublok Chung | - When you make the choice to start planning the assignation of your assets for after you pass or in the case of an accident, there is no doubt that the question of trusts will come into play. The reason for this is because trusts provide many tax breaks, asset protection and they give the trustee, the person of your choice, total control (who may or may not be the same person as the beneficiary).
The most consistently employed trust is known as a testamentary trust. With the terms ...
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- Presence Of Wolstenholmes' Experts Made St. Ann's Will Week 2009 Quite Special
By: Wolstenholmes Solicitors | - It is true that it is extremely rare to watch professionals, participating in social cause as we have seen during St. Anns Will Week 2009, which runs from the 2nd to the 6th of March. Here, world famous team of wills solicitors and wills and probate experts at Wolstenholmes were taking part.
It was great opportunity for every common man and woman to prepare or take experts suggestion for all possible hassles pertaining to last will and testament. During this time, ...
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- How You Can Protect Your Assets With An Offshore Trust
By: Sam Rosenna | - With so much economic doom and gloom surrounding us, it makes sense to batten down the hatches and protect your assets. If your assets are scattered about and are not protected, your liabilities could be laid wide open and your financial situation and personal security could be put at risk. However, an offshore trust can be used as an asset protection strategy to rid high net worth individuals of asset protection worries.
What is an offshore trust and what can it do for me?
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- Making Contact With Divorce Solicitors
By: Wolstenholmes Solicitors | - Obviously, a difficult Christmas is not going to make everyone experiencing marital difficulties split up, but it is fair to say that it can be a catalyst for the unhappily married to reach for the phone and call a family solicitor to seek some divorce advice. The New Year can add to the feeling that all is not well, as it comes with the desire to turn over a new leaf and make resolutions that may well change your life forever. For some people who are unhappy with their married life, it can seem ...
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- How Specialist Divorce Solicitors Can Help
By: Wolstenholmes Solicitors | - If you have taken the difficult decision to proceed towards divorce, then it is absolutely imperative that you receive advice from a reputable and established family solicitor as soon as possible. Divorce is always an unpleasant experience but proper divorce advice and legal representation can ensure that it proceeds as smoothly as possible.
Wolstenholmes Solicitors LLP has nearly 200 years of experience and its team of family law experts can provide advice on all aspects of divorce law. ...
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- Pet Trusts: Instructions To Include In A Pet Trust
By: Kevin Von Tungeln | - If the purpose of drawing up a pet trust is to provide specific instructions for the care and well-being of your pet in the event of your death or disability, it is important to consider the various categories you will need to address within that trust. In a statutory pet trust, the owner is given free reign to leave exact instructions for the beneficiary or caregiver, and these instructions can include anything from the type of food to feed the animal to the number of hours each day he or she ...
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- Estate Planning Advice From Walters And Ward, A.p.c.
By: Estate Planning Lawyer Firm San Diego | - The process of allocating everything a person owns, or his/her estate, is known as Estate Planning, which happens to be the focus of expertise and Walters and Ward. This planning will ease the process of dividing your estate amongst your heirs or loved ones once death occurs. It will save them time, money, and effort, and will make sure that your desires for your estate are met. More details regarding this necessary preparation can be found at walterstrustinfo.com. If an individual fails to pr ...
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- Pet Trusts: When To Create A Pet Trust
By: Kevin Von Tungeln | - Once you have decided that a pet trust is the best option to ensure the long-term care of your pet in the event of your death or disability, the next question to consider is when to actually create the trust. You are given two options for creating a legally enforceable pet trust in California: (1) while you are still alive, or (2) following your death via provisions in a will.
There are pros and cons to each option, and you should always consult a qualified California pet trust ...
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- I Don't Care What Your Lawyer Says - You Need A Trust
By: Dean Hanewinckel | - Have you been told that you don't need a revocable trust because you don't own 2 million dollars worth of assets? This may be true if all you care about is estate taxes. However, the main reason for setting up a revocable trust is to avoid probate and the cost and inconvenience associated with it.
While a trust can minimize or eliminate estate taxes for persons with a net worth of over 2 million dollars, the benefits of avoiding probate are available to almost anyone. And ther ...
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- Real Estate Investment Trusts
By: Stephen Campbell | - Investment in real estate gives an opportunity to gain good profit for a lot of people. Since investing in a real estate is a great short or long term opportunity, the demands are increasing with each passing day. The price increases substantially over time and this is the main reason for the increasing demand.
There are several real-estate investment trusts that are used by people to invest in residential and commercial business of real estate. A group of people form a trust and ...
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- Estate Planning Law Firms: Don't Try To Do It Alone
By: David Walcott | - If you are in you mid-fifties and haven't planned your retirement or even thought about some kind of will, you really don't know how far behind you are. Imagine you are sitting in a classroom taking the most important test of your life. You've answered the first three questions, you think you're doing okay, but you look around and everyone else is finished. Then the bell rings, you've flunked the test, and it is all over. If that sounds like a nightmare, it is. And that is what many people ...
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- The Advantages Of Estate Planning Tax
By: David Walcott | - Taxes are something you have to pay all of your life, and if you do not plan ahead, they will be something your estates will be paying even after you are gone. So making sure that you get quality estate planning tax advice when you are arranging your final affairs is one way to ensure that your heirs, and not the IRS, receive the bulk of your estate.
Some people may think that this does not apply to them because they either don't own anything worth considering, or that they still ...
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- The Key To Financial Success Is Asset Allocation
By: Sam Beatson | - Everyone wants to have more money. Moreover, people want to achieve that state of financial freedom that describes a level of success that could be described as "financial independence." Some say that the wealthiest 5% of individuals have more than the 95% put together between them in terms of financial net worth. Why do people desire money success? There are too many reasons to list here. Perhaps you could make a list yourself. Writing 100 reasons why to decide to be wealthy is a valuable exerc ...
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- Estate Planning"'"some Simple Advice
By: Steve Allen | - Trusts. Living wills. Estate Planning. These are words that strike fear and confusion in many people. Research from the American Bar Association shows that only 19 percent of people who need a will actually have a will.
The reasons for putting off this crucial step vary by the individual, but it can often be due to the fact that the process is viewed as complicated and difficult to understand. Individuals tend to avoid admitting when something is too complicated and as a result, p ...
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- Estate Planning - More Than Just A Legal Will
By: Andrew Stratton | - When people think of Estate Planning, they generally think of legal wills. Estate planning is not just a will, although it does involve writing one. Rather, it's a series of legal steps that involves allowing your beneficiaries to avoid probate and minimize the taxes incurred, and for you to write a living will in which you nominate trusted associates who would assume power of attorney and executor status should you be incapacitated or die. Estate planning also allows you more direct control ove ...
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- Trusts Are The Key To Protecting And Keeping Your Assets
By: Richard Reichmann | - Trusts have been used for hundreds of years for tax savings and estate planning, but few people realize the enormous potential for using trusts for privacy.
In this information age where records of your assets can be accessed via computer, fax and even telephone, you have to take active steps to protect your privacy.
A trust is a private contractual arrangement between several parties for holding, managing and investing assets. The parties to the trust are the gra ...
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- Biodiesel Testing - Quality And Purity Testing Increase Confidence And Assure Results
By: Andrew Stratton | - Biodiesel and biofuel production is growing at an exponentially increasing rate as new test-bed plants and full production facilities are being approved every month across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
At present, biofuel production is considered experimental, and compared with other fuel production techniques, the total output is still very low. Feedstock supply lines are therefore quite limited, either being sourced from widely distributed waste products of other industries, ...
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- Living Wills: Will Your Living Will Survive You?
By: Andrew Stratton | - A living will is also known as an advance directive, and it is a written document indicating a person's wishes in the event that they are reduced to a vegetative state by some accident or trauma, and whether doctors treating them should go to all efforts necessary to keep them legally living, or to "allow nature to take its course".
Unlike a legal will, courts have not generally recognized the significance of living wills, and the existence of one would not necessarily be legally ...
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- Streamlining Probate Law - Execute The Executor And Avoid Probate Completely
By: Andrew Stratton | - Probate law primarily concerns the execution, interpretation, and contest of legal wills and estates. A probate court may be known by various names depending on where it is, however, probate law always concerns how a deceased person's estate is handled by his executor or heirs. The word probate describes the process through which a person's final wishes are carried out with regard to who should administer the process, how assets will be sold and divided, and what will happen to any existing esta ...
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- Estate: Do You Need A Trust Or Foundation?
By: Jeffrey Voudrie | - Trusts and private foundations aren't just for the rich and famous like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. Nowadays, even people of modest means are realizing the great benefits trust and foundations can provide. Read on to see if you can, too.
There are many different kinds of trusts and foundations, but they all share a common element--control. Using them, you can control what happens to your assets while you are alive, in the event of incapacity and for generations to come.
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- Offshore Banking: New Strategies For A New Century
By: Robert Barr | - The primary objective of any type of offshore banking strategy is to provide the investor with asset protection and financial privacy. Over the years, offshore banking has had many names and has been referred to as an "underground economy" privy only to unsavory types seeking to exploit loop holes in worldwide banking systems. In reality, offshore investing is your first step to securing your financial well being. No longer reserved for the super rich, you can establish overseas accounts with as ...
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- How To Hide Assets
By: Rocco Beatrice | - In social functions, I always get asked about "How do I hide my assets?" From who are you trying to hide your assets from? Is there a legitimate way to hide your assets?
You will know if you have succeeded in hiding your assets if an asset search by an extremely interested party does not reveal your identity. In a post 9/11, it's not possible. Everything has become more transparent with the passage of government banking acts.
Interested parties have a way of finding ...
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- Estate Planning And The Enduring Power Of Attorney - Changes Imminent
By: Ray Prince | - You may or may not know what an Enduring Power Of Attorney is (or is designed to do), but it is being replaced very soon by a revised version known as a Lasting Power Of Attorney, and the consensus between the solicitors we have talked to agree that the old system may well be better, simpler and cheaper all round.
So, what is an Enduring Power Of Attorney?
Where up to date wills give you the reassurance of knowing that your affairs will be taken care of after your d ...
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- Trusts - Delaware Or Rode Island?
By: Les Raketti | - Only four States allow one to set up a trust and be a protected inheritor as well. Missouri and Colorado have comparable laws but the common understanding is that those statutes do not work. Of the four States, Nevada has the shortest statue of limitations period - that is the time difference between the date the asset is moved to the trust and the date the asset is secured. In Nevada the length of time is six months or two years after the creditor finds out or should of known whichever is longe ...
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- Should Parents Ever Leave An Inheritance Outright To A Child Who Has A Disability?
By: L. Mark Russell | - There are few absolutes in estate planning, but this is one. If a child has a significant mental disability, the answer is parents should not leave an inheritance outright to a child with a significant mental disability.
If the child has a significant mental disability then the child will obviously have difficulty managing the inheritance. And this inheritance is the child's last safety net -- so from a planning perspective parents generally want to be conservative and legally set ...
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- The Pitfalls Of Online Wills & Trusts Forms
By: Michael Goldstein, Esq. | - There comes a point in every person's life where it is appropriate and prudent to begin planning for the post death division of property and assets. It is necessary to anticipate and plan for the quagmire that is probate. For many facing the task of planning their estate, the mere idea of paying an estate planning attorney can be painful and many simply choose to forego such a task by using cheap or free online forms. While choosing the easy way out may save you money now, it will cost your est ...
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- The Many Types And Uses Of Real Estate Investment Trusts
By: David Gass | - Entities that invest in different types of real estate or real estate related assets such as commercial complexes, shopping centers, offices, and hotels are known as real estate investment trusts or REITs. These entities first came into being in the 1960's to give people a chance for investing in large-scale commercial properties.
The internal revenue code has a list of conditions, which a company must fulfill in order to qualify as an REIT. Below is the list of these conditions. ...
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- Personal Finance "" A Quick Introduction To Three Money Generating Instruments
By: Joel Teo | - Most people when asked today are either floundering in debt or asset rich and cash poor. This is because most of the funds and plans that people invest in are usually capital appreciation instruments. This means that you can make money due to the difference in the buying and selling price of the instrument. So while you are invested in the instruments, you do not make much with the exception of dividends issued either once or twice a year.
This article will therefore introduce you ...
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- Estate Planning - Capacity Challenges
By: Ronald Hudkins | - Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins
Wills and trusts have an interesting history in a culture as heavily influenced by British common law as our own. The bequests of wills have been the pole star around which a great deal of mystery fiction has been written where furtive and anxious relatives wait around a long imposing table to hear what is to become of the family fortune and thus; what is to become of them. As usual, fiction and the media give one side of what something has been or ...
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- Estate Planning - Protecting Your Furred Friend
By: Ronald Hudkins | - Copyright 2006 Ronald Hudkins
The whole concept of estate planning has a couple of primary aims: 1) making sure that your assets are distributed where and how you want them to be, and 2) ensuring that your loved ones are cared for and able to comfortably live out their lives after you are gone. If you consider your pets as part of your property, to whom do you leave them and the obvious answer is to someone who wont immediately haul them to the nearest shelter and drop the ...
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- Real Estate Investment Trusts
By: Mar | - A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (rhymes with treat) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. The REIT structure was designed to provide a similar structure for investment in real estate as mutual funds provide for investment in stocks.
Like other corporations, REITs can be publicly or privately held. Public REITs may be listed on public stock exchanges like shares of common stock in other firms.
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