Much has been made of the poor savings habits of Americans. For the first time since the Depression year of 1933, the nation racked up a negative savings rate in 2005, according to a Commerce Department report
It's often necessary or simply desirable to terminate an estate or trust in favor of its beneficiaries. Problems arise when that estate or trust is the beneficiary of an individual retirement account (IRA) and termination should occur before all...
It just got harder to be old and anything short of wealthy. Chapter 2 of the new Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) focuses exclusively on long-term care under Medicaid and seeks to make it much harder for elders to protect any assets if they are...