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Articles by Ronald Hudkins

• Estate Planning - Gender Issues Meet Social Security
  Over views pay disparity within the Social Security Pension Plan between the male and female workforce within the United States. Highlights some of the causes of the disproportionate retirement allowances.
  Published 14Aug2006, viewed 248 times

• Estate Planning - Real Property Disbursement Problems.
  Over views the problem created by evenly splitting an interest in real property between your heirs.
  Published 13Aug2006, viewed 298 times

• Estate Planning - Protecting Your Assets from the State
  Over views the U.S. Government’s ability to seize your assets to pay for long term health care. Encourages proper estate planning to avoid personal property losses.
  Published 12Aug2006, viewed 398 times

• Estate Planning – Protecting your Will’s Integrity
  Over views modern day techniques (evidence) one can present to the courts that uphold the decisions the testator dictates in their written last will and testament.
  Published 24Jul2006, viewed 241 times

• Estate Planning - No Contest Clause in your Will
  Over views the consideration of putting a no contest clause into one’s will if they feel the will is going to be heavily contested. Additionally, advises how courts react to such a clause and suggests an alternative consideration.
  Published 19Jul2006, viewed 346 times

• Estate Planning - Capacity Challenges
  Over views the elements of capacity used to contest the legality of a will. Looks at mental deficiency, insane delusion and mental derangement characteristics that have been used to invalidate a will.
  Published 06Jul2006, viewed 303 times

• Estate Planning -Intent to Disinherit or Oversight?
  Over views incomplete estate planning and some laws that are in place to remedy the situation of overlooked heirs as opposed to those specifically disinherited.
  Published 30Jun2006, viewed 302 times

• Estate Planning – Considering a Second Marriage Late in Life
  Over views estate considerations that should be accommodated as widows and widowers (with their longer life spans) increasingly meet and decide upon a second marriage. Addresses for consideration a set of unique legal questions that those getting remarried, do not often think through.
  Published 25Jun2006, viewed 301 times

• Estate Planning - Protecting Your Furred Friend
  Over views the care considerations for pets after their owner dies and possible alternatives to their owners estate planning and subsequent assurance the well being of their pets will remain important.
  Published 23Jun2006, viewed 291 times

• Retirement and the Roth IRA
  Over views the Roth IRA and the Individual Retirement Account options and how taxes factor into ones estate planning and retirement considerations.
  Published 12Jun2006, viewed 245 times

• Estate Planning - Undue Influence Considerations
  Over views common means of contesting a will such as undue influence, lack of capacity, psychological domination and/or degenerated mental state.
  Published 23May2006, viewed 355 times

• Estate Planning - Rules and Trustees
  Reviews problems associated with forming a trust such as deciding the powers which the trustee(s) have and do not have relative to the assets placed into a trust.
  Published 22May2006, viewed 271 times

• Estate Planning - What About Life Insurance?
  Over views whole life and term life insurance policies by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each policy type as part of an estate plan consideration.
  Published 20May2006, viewed 229 times

• Planning for the Intangibles
  Over views questions surrounding intangible digital assets as a relative consideration to ones estate planning needs.
  Published 18May2006, viewed 263 times

• Legality of Offshore Investments
  An over view of offshore investments and the procedures one must consider and comply with to ensure these investments remain a legal estate planning tool.
  Published 17May2006, viewed 500 times

• Estate Planning - The Life Estate
  Looks at the history of property law and over views the life estate as an instrument of wealth transfer and how it helps to get the answer to the difficult questions associated with estate planning.
  Published 16May2006, viewed 284 times

• Estate Planning - Real Property Disbursement Problems
  Over views some problems that are created by evenly splitting an interest in real property between you heirs.
  Published 15May2006, viewed 234 times

• Offshore Trust - Effective Estate Planning, You Decide
  An over view of offshore trusts as part of an effective estate planning option.
  Published 13May2006, viewed 608 times

• Estate Planning - Changing A Will
  Over views the legal complications that could result in changing a last will and testament without doing so by not using an express change statement.
  Published 02May2006, viewed 246 times

• Choosing an Estate Planning Attorney
  Over views the process of finding an estate planning attorney locally, considerations in their selection and measures to take to check the attorneys' qualifications.
  Published 23Apr2006, viewed 208 times

• Estate Planning - Protecting Your Spouse.
  Over views courses of action that can be considered in estate planning to advance the protection of a surviving spouse above and beyound joint tenancy laws.
  Published 21Apr2006, viewed 200 times

• The Revocability or Irrevocability of a Trust
  Over views what constitutes a trust being revocable and/or becoming irrevocable. Reminds individuals that unforseen illness or disaster could create circumstances that require revocation of a trust.
  Published 20Apr2006, viewed 243 times

• The Will - Do You Really Need One?
  Over views the process of asset distribution by the probate court should one die without leaving a will.
  Published 18Apr2006, viewed 201 times

• Intestacy: Passing Without Estate Planning - What Happens?
  Over views state intestacy laws that govern what happens to property left by those who did not make a will or trust.
  Published 17Apr2006, viewed 268 times

• The Living Trust - Is It For You?
  An over view of the living trust, the insterments intention and downside. Explores the elements of a trust and one's ability to control disputes after their death.
  Published 16Apr2006, viewed 218 times

• The Living Will-Establishing Your Medical Decisions
  An over view of how a living will establishes your medical care decisions should you become terminally ill or permanently incapicated.
  Published 14Apr2006, viewed 235 times

• Estate Planning - You're Never Too Young
  Over views the state probate process and the general asset dirtribution process. Declares the need for an estate plan and the importance of making that an important part of everyones financial planning.
  Published 08Apr2006, viewed 199 times

• Selecting an Advantageous Trust and Estate Lawyer
  Briefly describes how to select a professional trusts and estate lawyer.
  Published 20Mar2006, viewed 223 times

• Living Wills and Estate Planning
  Briefly describes the purpose of a living will/advanced directive and how to file it.
  Published 19Mar2006, viewed 183 times

• The Last Will and Testament and Estate Planning
  Briefly describes the last opportunity to decide who gets your property when you pass away by using legal documentation.
  Published 18Mar2006, viewed 232 times

• Living Trusts and Estate Planning
  Briefly describes how living trusts protect assets for your loved ones.
  Published 16Mar2006, viewed 196 times

• Trusts and Estate Planning
  Briefly describes different trusts that people use for estate planning.
  Published 15Mar2006, viewed 200 times

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