Because I've got to tell you, Helen, your death feels like the final straw.
And when you do die, events that transpired before your death will remain in place.
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You may be elderly and your heirs will get a step-up in cost basis at your death.
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So many advisers recommend establishing separate IRAs for separate beneficiaries before your death.
To avoid the statute of intestacy, you need to make sure that you leave a legally-effective will at your death.
You can set up the trust during your lifetime, or you can engineer it to take effect upon your death.
It builds up a cash value that can go to you in your retirement or to your heirs at your death.
Then, at your death, you own no property requiring a probate proceeding.
You could be in a hospital dying, and they bring in your best friend, and on your death bed, bring in Judith.
If the patient's time -- the process of your death -- were slowed down, doctors would have more time to fix you.
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Planning your estate is important in making sure that your assets pass to the persons you want them to go to at your death.
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Leave an IRAto charity at your death, and the gift can cost as little as 25 cents on the dollar --without a complicated trust.
One mechanism to achieve this is a testamentary trust, which will be created through your will and which will take effect upon your death.
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And it really is like hearing an old friend again, although admittedly one who has a dozen different ways to respond to your death.
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The primary purpose of a will is to make sure that your property goes to the person(s) you want it to go to at your death.
Any of you who are sitting on a billion dollars, and planning to leave the money to charity at your death, should see " Foundation Follies".
If you want to protect your heirs and provide them with money for living expenses upon your death, you'll need to obtain a separate insurance policy.
Without life insurance, your heirs would have to sell the property or the business in a hurry: Estate tax is due within nine months of your death.
Only in France could you record a reggae version of your national anthem, outraging upright citizens, and then, at your death, be compared to Baudelaire by the President.
Save your families the grief and pain of your death.
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If the will, in contrast, says that the trust is funded up to the amount of whatever federal estate exemption is in effect on the date of your death, it could get too much.
This determines who will receive your property at your death, how much of your property will go to the government in taxes, and whether your property will pass through a probate estate.
That way, if your spouse dies before you or decides at your death to pass on the 401(k) immediately to the kids (via what is called a disclaimer), they'll be able to stretch out tax deferral.
If you own property at your death, title to that property must be cleared to those legally entitled to it, by your will if you left one or by the statute of intestacy if you did not.
The powers conferred nearly always include the power to forgo or terminate medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.
Your health care durable power of attorney should express whether you wish to receive medical care if, in the opinion of your physician, you are in a persistent vegetative state without hope of recovery, and medical care would only artificially delay your death.
But in general, when your death is of more interest to family, friends, colleagues and your immediate community, the text of an obit is written by the loved ones themselves, who make no pretense of (and have to reason to aspire to) objectivity.
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Depending on your state, you may be able to set up payable-on-death designations on your bank accounts and transfer-on-death designations on your brokerage accounts, vehicle(s), and real estate as a way to make sure assets transfer outside of probate.
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When you die with souls in your possession, you return to the bonfire or whatever it is they use next time around, and you must return to your place of death to recover your souls.
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