Tag: estate planning
Calling it Splits: Charitable Assets in the Divorce Landscape
Throughout your career, you will likely help dozens of clients navigate the intersection of philanthropy and estate planning. While the focus is often on the creation of donor-advised funds or charitable remainder trusts, an increasingly relevant question for many advisors is: What happens to these assets in the event of a divorce? Given the rising importance of specialized roles in
Rethinking legacy: Balancing gifts to heirs with the community’s future
Next time you meet with your estate planning attorney, it may be a good idea to check in on your long-term plans and ask yourself questions you might not yet have considered. Some planners, for example, report that more and more clients are reconsidering an automatic estate distribution to heirs. Instead, their clients are evaluating what type of legacies make
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