by Ed Hinerman | Jul 5, 2010 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
The truth is there are times when there is a legitimate question about whether life insurance is necessary, whether it is the tool for the job. Here are five times that I would submit to you that the answer is clearly buy life insurance. I am leaving the whole issue...
by Ed Hinerman | May 12, 2010 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
History is littered with examples of poor life insurance and estate planning, and examples of how a lack of attention and review completely negates good planning. Now I’m guessing that there aren’t a lot of pro football team owners reading this, but the...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 6, 2009 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
As we crash toward the end of the year and one of the wackiest decades in a while, accountants for the high net worth and famous are all armed with the same good advice. 2010 is a good year to die, at least so far. What started in 2001 as one of the best tax code...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 4, 2009 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
In my mind the estate tax changes made in 2001 were a great idea with a great direction and one of the stupidest endings that could be thought up. Why would Congress and the President go so far to finally bring something out of the dark ages and make it fair, only to...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 19, 2009 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance
If not, give this some thought! Estate taxes come due nine months after the death of the sole surviving spouse or individual whose net worth comprises the estate. While nine months may seem like a long enough time to wrap up an estate and gather the money to pay the...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 27, 2009 | beneficiary, conversion, estate taxes, foreign travel, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, private pilots, scuba diving, suicide clause
I did a series of posts last year on life insurance policies and have referred back to those posts on several occasions when explaining some specific clauses and options such as the suicide clause and incontestability clause and the conversion option. Now I would like...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 29, 2009 | estate taxes, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance, term insurance, universal life, variable universal life, whole life
I’ve been accused of recommending term life for every need and while I maintain that 95% of all needs for the average person are well served by term, there are valid reasons to consider permanent insurance in your portfolio. Before any jumps on that statement...
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 17, 2008 | estate taxes, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, term insurance, universal life, whole life
For as long as I’ve been sharing the “life insurance world according to Ed”, I have beat the drum as hard as I can that there is only one good permanent product out there and it doesn’t have cash value. It’s called universal life with a...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 2, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Where the heck did my net worth go? This has been one tough month on those of us who are actually middle class enough to care what happens to our retirement investments. For many it is a scramble to get your money to a safe place, with people scrambling to move money...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 2, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
If the proposed changes in the estate tax laws are adopted by congress, and it looks like they will be, the exemption limits will finally be sufficiently high enough to protect the majority of John McCain’s middle class from having the pants taxed off of their...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 18, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
Historically life insurance used in estate planning has revolved around the issue of estate taxes, with the irrevocable life insurance trust being the stop gap to keep the government from draining off half the value in fairly liquid estates and sometimes completely...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 23, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance
According to the aficionados, the only thing better than a garage sale is an estate sale. In the best of situations this is after all the good stuff has gone to family members and the executor of the estate throws the rest of it in the front yard so their job can...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 2, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, universal life, whole life
The not so funny standing joke in the estate planning business is that the most lucrative plan would be a plan to die in 2010. The meat behind that joke is, of course, the estate tax revision law that was was passed not long after Bush took office that started reform...
by Ed Hinerman | May 27, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance, universal life
Estate tax repeal, just like getting older, is gently creeping up on us at about the speed of a Lear Jet. In 2010, if congress doesn’t do anything the estate tax will disappear until, of course, reinstated by a congress and president of sound mind. Most of those...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 8, 2008 | estate taxes, insurance, life insurance, second to die insurance
However the elections shake out, congress and the new president will be dealing with the estate tax issue over the next year. Already a myriad of options have been thrown into the hopper. Amost no one and none of the proposals point to the elimination of the federal...
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