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		<title>Own an online business? Here&#8217;s a valuable tool!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I prepare for the inevitable, I am realizing how important it is to consolidate my records. I haven&#8217;t done this. I have plans . . . for what is to happen with my estate when I die. I have all the paperwork in order. Or so my advisors tell me. But I haven&#8217;t prepared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking care of your online presence after you die</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t something I had thought about before, but I just saw an article titled Tools for Managing Your Online Life After Death. What happens to your Hotmail or Gmail account when you die? What about your online photo collections on Picasa or Flickr? Answer: It depends. And some of it depends on you! To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estate gifts &#8220;gone bad&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted the story of a major bequest that came to the brink of becoming worthless&#8211;or worse than worthless&#8211;to the recipients. I imagine it&#8217;s a cautionary tale that many of us should pay attention to. Check it out on the Strategic Inheritance forums . . . and join the conversation!]]></description>
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		<title>Maintain flexibility . . . and review your estate plan documents!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our estate planning attorney feels very confident about his ability to structure documents that will take care of all contingencies into the future. And so, when he drafted our original documents 10 years ago, he included a number of elements that are characterized as &#8220;irrevocable.&#8221; Sadly, neither Sarita nor I had any idea what these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking with the kids about their inheritance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wealthy man had completed his estate plan. His advisor asked, &#8220;So when do you plan to hold your family meeting to talk with your kids about their inheritances?&#8221; &#8220;Family meeting?!? There&#8217;s not going to be any family meeting!!!&#8221; &#8220;Oh, there will be a family meeting. The question is only when it will occur,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why open a DAF if you&#8217;re not ready to fund it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at a Mission India conference. The president of the West Michigan Christian Foundation, Randy Veltkamp, made a presentation this afternoon at which he suggested it could be a very creative and wise aspect of estate planning to open a DAF&#8211;a donor-advised fund&#8211;even if and as one has no funds to put into it at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasonable compensation for fiduciaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Schoenmeyer offers some exceptionally practical and useful advice for executors, administrators or trustees concerning compensation. He notes that many family members initially volunteer to serve as fiduciaries but wind up frustrated: &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t planning to pay myself, but my parent/siblings have been so annoying and I&#8217;ve put in so much work that I want [...]]]></description>
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