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ERISA 11.03.2023

Innovation and the 401k?

  When seeking to maximize the benefits participants reap from a 401k, it’s easy enough for plan sponsors to identify positive-sounding marketplace innovations. Typically, what’s more difficult is making decisions and implementing changes, given the…
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Innovation and the 401k?
Court Bonds 11.03.2023

Timing’s Everything: Probate Disputes

  Ideally, careful estate planning results in a valid will, and likely a trust too, as well as communication of intentions and designation of a fiduciary, such as an executor or trustee, to carry out…
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Timing’s Everything: Probate Disputes
Court Bonds 11.03.2023

Professional Fiduciary?

One way or another, someone has to close out our affairs when we die, and this person is a fiduciary, with legal obligations to carry out duties in the best interest of the estate and…
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Professional Fiduciary?
ERISA 11.02.2023

Help for Small Balance Accounts

  Small retirement accounts have been a big problem for a long time, as they tend to become forgotten and contribute to challenges related to missing participants, cash leakage, and, of course, sub-optimal participant outcomes….
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Help for Small Balance Accounts
ERISA 11.02.2023

Failure To Diversify: ERISA Violation

  Following an investigation by its Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Department of Labor won a settlement for the participants of an employer sponsored retirement plan, arguing that fiduciary breaches, including failure to diversify…
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Failure To Diversify: ERISA Violation
Court Bonds 10.27.2023

Unmarried Partners: Avoid Intestacy

  Although it’s best for everyone to have an estate plan–and avoid dying “intestate”–it’s especially important for unmarried partners not to leave the distribution of assets for the law to manage. That’s because state intestacy…
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Unmarried Partners: Avoid Intestacy
Court Bonds 10.27.2023

Probate Heartache: Valid Marriage?

  Most families manage to avoid the headaches and heartaches of probate disputes through careful estate planning. Absent that, diligent adherence to probate protocols, including abiding by the laws of intestacy to distribute assets can…
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Probate Heartache: Valid Marriage?
ERISA 10.27.2023

From Awareness To Action

  For business owners, the days of having a vague notion that cybersecurity requires attention–and hoping “someone” in IT has it covered, are over. Top down and all around action is necessary to protect the…
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From Awareness To Action
ERISA 10.27.2023

Here’s To A Happy Ending….

  How well do the actual operations of the company sponsored retirement plan match the procedures spelled out in the plan document? Are the operations also in compliance with what even experts say are “increasingly…
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Here’s To A Happy Ending….