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Category: leaving a legacy
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Some tips on estate planning that can minimize the emotional upheaval after we’re gone.
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When our adult children or grandchildren get interested in writing about our lives, how much input do we have into how our legacy-legend gets spun?
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Learning a hard lesson from the days when my mother was the parent of a grown child.
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Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 writes about the meaning of our legacies–to our grown children and their children and beyond: “When people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.”
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It may make sense to divide our worldly goods unevenly among our grown children. But if we do, we are well advised to let them know about it.
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Many of us want to make things easier for our grown children–pave the road for them with a little help here and maybe even a lot of assistance there. That is, if we have the wherewithal to do it. Recently, the New York Times weighed in on the issue, taking as its news cue presidential…
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They have a will that tells their grown children how the major assets in their estate will be shared. But a few weeks ago, Jane and Lester took an additional step. They made out two lists. One they shared with their children as soon as it was complete. Jane calls it the "asset locator." It…
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I've been thinking a lot lately about my legacy to my grown children. By that I don't mean how much money Paterfamilias and I will leave them–who knows what will be left to leave should PF or I hit a serious-illness streak. I'm thinking more about what I'll leave that lets my grown children and…
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