https://godfreylawoffices.com Sideline to Sideline Planning Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:03:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/godfreylawoffices.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-estate-planning-south-bend-GLO-logo-g.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://godfreylawoffices.com 32 32 248531061 https://godfreylawoffices.com/planning-with-iras-under-the-new-secure-act/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=planning-with-iras-under-the-new-secure-act Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:15:25 +0000 http://godfreylawoffices.com/?p=1278 A new law affecting IRAs is the biggest change to estate planning in recent years. With the Secure Act much of retirement planning remains the same, but a lot has changed too.  Enough to warrant a review of your current estate plan. The biggest change is that all IRA plan assets must now be paid...

The post Planning with IRAs Under the New Secure Act first appeared on Godfrey Law Offices.]]> 1278 https://godfreylawoffices.com/retirement-plan-integration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retirement-plan-integration Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:38:15 +0000 http://box5879.temp.domains/~godfrey9/?p=932 Is your estate plan on speaking terms with your retirement plans?    By Christopher J. Godfrey, Esq. Our estate plan often has little control over our largest asset. When you set up your IRA, how did you decide on a beneficiary? Conventional wisdom tends to focus on only two things: “What will be the income tax...

The post Retirement Plan Integration first appeared on Godfrey Law Offices.]]> 932 https://godfreylawoffices.com/the-importance-of-funding-your-living-trust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-importance-of-funding-your-living-trust Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:46:10 +0000 http://box5879.temp.domains/~godfrey9/?p=936 By Christopher J. Godfrey You just brought home your brand new living trust. It looks great, and you got it at a bargain price. But like everything else in life you get what you pay for. And like everything else there are things that work and things that don’t. How do you know your plan...

The post The Importance of Funding Your Living Trust first appeared on Godfrey Law Offices.]]> 936 https://godfreylawoffices.com/celebrity-estate-planning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrity-estate-planning Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:42:20 +0000 http://box5879.temp.domains/~godfrey9/?p=934    By Christopher J. Godfrey, Esq. Celebrity estate plans, and the missteps found within them, get our attention. James Gandolfini of Sopranos fame was no exception. His will is available on the internet, as are those by Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Comparing them is an opportunity to see how much estate plans can differ....

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