Being a trustee comes with a lot of responsibilities. These helpful tips, along with the assistance of a living trust attorney, can help you successfully manage a trust.
While still alive, many parents and grandparents wish to pass their wealth on to their children or grandchildren: these gifts are also a good way to decrease a taxable estate. In 2010, you can give a child or grandchild $13,000 a year without the subsequent incurring taxes, but you may not want the child directly [...]
Social Security seems to be moving toward its day of reckoning. According to a recent article by Philip Moeller, efforts to put Social Security on a sound long-term footing included higher tax rates for payments into the system, raising retirement ages, and treating some Social Security payments as taxable income.
