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Disability Planning

Free Durable Power of Attorney

by Jerrold Bartholomew March 5, 2008

The durable power of attorney is an extremely valuable estate plan document. It allows one person to designate an agent to conduct all financial affairs. These documents are typically durable meaning that the power continues through the disability of the principal (the person naming an agent). Alternatively, there can be springing powers of attorney, which [...]

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Long Term Care Insurance for Everyone?

by Jerrold Bartholomew March 1, 2008

States have begun to encourage all citizens to obtain long term care insurance as part of the Deficit Reduction Act. No one likes paying premiums on insurance, but for those of modest means, the premiums are especially burdensome and the benefits, considering that Medicaid is available when the assets run out, negligible. According to this [...]

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