by Leslie Marenco | Dec 9, 2016 | Articles, Estate Planning, Estate Tax, Trusts
If you created an estate plan that includes a living trust, you must review it to determine if it contains language that could create unnecessary cost, effort and stress for your surviving spouse. Back in the day, when the estate tax exemption was $675,000 to...
by Leslie Marenco | Dec 8, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized
Everybody always assumes that Medicare is going to pay for the nursing home, until they find out that Medicare only pays for up to a few months after a hospital stay. It’s not meant to pay for long-term care. This is not a fun thing to find out when you’re...
by Leslie Marenco | Dec 2, 2016 | Articles, Estate Planning
In Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, he said: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” When Jobs was 17, he read a quote that made an impression on him,...
