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Tag: estate planning

Build flexibility into your estate plan with powers of appointment

  • Posted onAugust 18, 2020September 18, 2020
  • Uncategorized

There are several tools you can use to build flexibility into your estate plan. Flexibility is especially important now because of an uncertain estate planning environment. The federal gift and estate tax exemption currently is an inflation-adjusted $11.58 million (the highest it’s ever been) but it’s…

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Estate Planning … from home.

  • Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020
  • Estate Planning

COVID-19 has brought estate planning to forefront for many people.  Whether you are a front-line first responder, a parent with college age children or you have one or more aging parents, this crisis as probably caused to wonder: “What if ….” In a prior post…

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Ducks In a Row?

  • Posted onApril 8, 2020April 28, 2020
  • Estate Planning

Covid-19 Update I understand the last few days and weeks have probably caused you some anxiety not just about the volatile financial markets, but also – maybe primarily- about your health and the health of those you love and care about. I’m an estate planning lawyer…

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Fresh & Local: estate planning version.

  • Posted onMarch 2, 2019March 2, 2019
  • Estate Planning

Phote by Sarah Pflug from Burst Keep your estate planning documents Fresh and Local I often get calls from people who have just moved to Connecticut and are wondering if they need to update or revise their estate planning documents.  What I usually say is…

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A Little Piece of Planning

  • Posted onApril 6, 2016May 7, 2018
  • Planning Stories

If you watched the end of the Villanova – North Carolina NCAA Championship game Monday night you (a) saw a classic game; (b) with 4.7 seconds left and a timeout on the floor you were treated to the sight of Villanova’s 6’11’’ senior, Daniel Ochefu…

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A Family Estate Planning Problem (Part One)

  • Posted onMarch 31, 2016May 8, 2018
  • Planning Stories

Over the course of a few blog posts I’ll be designing an estate plan for several members of the sprawling Buckman family. They are pretty typical.  You might even know them. Frank and Marilyn are in their mid-sixties and live in an upscale St. Louis…

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The People vs OJ Simpson and Estate Planning

  • Posted onMarch 14, 2016May 8, 2018
  • DIY Planning

If you’ve been watching FX’s The People v. OJ Simpson – it’s mesmerizing despite having lived through it – you couldn’t help but be struck by the scene where a distressed Juice is getting ready to turn himself in. He’s high on a pill cocktail,…

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COVID-19 Can’t keep us down. We are open, remotely!

Believe it or not, estate planning may be even easier now than pre-COVID.  I’m meeting with clients now over Zoom during the day, at night and weekends.  For right now (till June 23) we can arrange for you to sign your documents from the comfort of your home.

 

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Attorney Steve Basche is a partner in the firm of Hassett & George, PC, with offices in Glastonbury and Simsbury, Connecticut.

Recent Posts

  • With a flick of the switch: Build an on-off mechanism into your estate plan
  • Put pen to paper: How a letter of instruction can benefit family harmony
  • Build flexibility into your estate plan with powers of appointment
  • Oh, no, your original will is missing!
  • Should you “park” your vehicle in a living trust?

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