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Introduction: When searching for a luxury senior assisted living community, it’s important to find a place that provides exceptional care, upscale amenities, and a comfortable lifestyle. This comprehensive guide aims to assist you in prospecting luxury senior assisted living communities, offering step-by-step guidance to ensure you find the perfect community for yourself or your loved… Continue reading Luxury Senior Assisted Living: Your Path to a Perfect Fit

Life Insurance Made Simple In all its forms life insurance has one core benefit – it pays an income-tax-free death benefit directly to your beneficiary when you die. Life insurance also gives you options that can reduce taxes immediately, build tax-advantaged income for retirement and/or provide assets to offset estate taxes. The two major types… Continue reading Life Insurance Types Explained

Reverse Mortgages Satisfy Broad Range of Needs for Senior Homeowners William and Betty Ellis of Vancouver, WA, needed home modifications to make life more comfortable for Mrs. Ellis after she suffered a debilitating stroke. John and Helen Foy wanted to cruise the Pacific Coast Highway on their Harley-Davidson. What do these two seemingly unrelated stories have… Continue reading Reverse Mortgages Giving Seniors Extra Living Cash

Are you dreaming about retiring and having more time with your children and grandchildren, playing more golf, gardening or traveling? When can you afford to retire and what will that new stage of your life look like? According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a growing number of baby boomers say they’ll retire after age… Continue reading Delaying Retirement

HELENA – The latest scam against seniors is selling fake Medicare prescription cards to seniors under the new Federal Medicare Prescription Plan. Confusion surrounding the new and complex Medicare prescription drug benefit makes the elderly susceptible to scams popping up elsewhere, Montana state health officials warned Monday. Scam artists have been selling fake Medicare discount cards to seniors in Idaho… Continue reading Medicare Prescription Card Fraud Takes a New Twist

The Death Tax Not Gone  The death tax? Sounds funny, but it’s anything but.  There are still a great number of questions about estate taxes.  Unfortunately, many people believe the sound bites that have pronounced the death of the death tax.  These have been greatly exaggerated, to say the least.  Many people have the mistaken impression that the federal… Continue reading Is The Death Tax Gone?

Settling Legal Wills The last will and testament will not settle over night.  Beneficiaries often find themselves at odds over the disbursement of property after the death of a decedent.  Sometimes it’s over the property or the value of the property itself.  Sometimes it’s just that fact that it cannot happen immediately.  Most beneficiaries think that once the… Continue reading Last Will & Testament 101

Terminating your rights under a will for the better statutory provisions Why would you renounce a will?  If there is a Will, the surviving spouse can renounce it and the inheritance it contains (if any), and instead elect to take a share of the estate specifically provided by state law.  This is a legal device originally intended for… Continue reading Renouncing a Will

When a person has a “life estate” in a piece of property (most commonly, a house and the contents within it), he/she enjoys almost the same rights in that property as would an “absolute” owner – but only for his/her life.  The idea of a life estate is best illustrated with a typical example, the “subsequent marriage”… Continue reading The Basics of a Life Estate

Last will and testament and legal considerations  How does a will and the law treat an estate when both people die at the same time?  The answer, of course, depends on whether any planning has been done. The most important planning, however, is practical, not legal. First, have you found a capable and willing guardian… Continue reading How Does a Last Will and Testament Treat Simultaneous Death