How to: Organize Digital Assets

You must now make sure that your loved ones have access to your digital assets should you die.

Ethan Huizenga January 4, 2021

What are the Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes?

Taking a few simple steps now can potentially help save your beneficiaries thousands in legal fees and taxes.

Ethan Huizenga December 21, 2020

How Probate affects Real Estate Transactions

Is it better to transfer the title of the home to us, or to leave it as it is given her age and go through probate?

Ethan Huizenga December 14, 2020

How to Ask Parents about Estate Planning?

Do you expect your parents to leave you a financial legacy? Nearly half of working-age Americans assume that they will receive an inheritance that will support them later in life, according to a survey by financial services company HSBC. Perhaps the bigger question, though, is how to even approach this topic with your parents.

Ethan Huizenga November 9, 2020

5 Ways to Protect Your Estate Plan

The inheritance you leave could be eaten away by taxes or given to the wrong person. Here are five tips to avoid that.

Ethan Huizenga November 3, 2020

Northwest Iowa Estate Planning Documents

Powers of Attorney and Asset Protection

Many people focus on only protecting their estate from probate. However, in the big picture, probate is the least of their worries.

Ethan Huizenga October 29, 2020

Does Your Estate Plan Protect Digital Property?

It’s difficult to go a few hours without interacting with a digital account. Whether that is email, online banking or social media, many daily tasks involve digital informational storage.

Ethan Huizenga October 27, 2020

Reviewing Your Estate Plan Protects Goals

Most people wish to have more control over who and how their assets are managed than what the state laws provide, and so they draft documents that can override the Laws of Intestacy, when those laws do not match their objectives.

Ethan Huizenga October 26, 2020