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Cyber for Plan Sponsors 11.08.2022

Devastating To Plan Participants

  Among other fiduciary breach claims, a new lawsuit, filed by retirement plan participants against a freight transporting business, alleges plan sponsor failure to monitor revenue-sharing payments for reasonableness, and describes the results to participants…
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Devastating To Plan Participants
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 11.08.2022

Summary Plan Description?

  A proper SPD is mandatory for compliance of the company sponsored retirement plan with ERISA. Importantly, a good, solid SPD is also helpful in the administration of the retirement plan and can even be…
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Summary Plan Description?
Cyber for Plan Sponsors 11.08.2022

2023’s Coming: Contribution Limits

  Though many of us are still wondering where August went, we’re actually closer to New Year’s 2023 then Labor Day 2022. The government has announced the contribution limits for elective deferrals to retirement accounts…
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2023’s Coming: Contribution Limits
Court Bonds 11.03.2022

Filing A Will in Probate Court?

  Families frequently—and mistakenly—believe that when a will exists, probate can be avoided upon the death of a loved one. The fact is, a will needs to be filed in probate court, and this is…
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Filing A Will in Probate Court?
Court Bonds 10.27.2022

Customizing A Special Needs Trust

  Establishing a Special Needs Trust for a loved one ensures allows you to think about their needs, including the importance of maintaining eligibility for government benefits. Lawyers explain how a trust can be customized…
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Customizing A Special Needs Trust
Court Bonds 10.27.2022

Avoid Disputes

Avoid Disputes In addition to all the other important reasons to carefully prepare a will and or trust, is this one: having a solid estate plan is the best way to avoid the disputes that…
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Avoid Disputes
Court Bonds 10.21.2022

Can You Avoid Probate? Should You?

  There is nothing inherently bad about probate. Simply put, probate is the legal, public process that brings closure to our affairs when we die. Although most states offer expedited processes depending upon the level…
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Can You Avoid Probate? Should You?
Court Bonds 10.21.2022

18 and Up?

Simply put, everyone from the age of 18 on up needs an estate plan: the tools that will arm our loved ones to attend to our affairs. Ideally, they won’t need these legal documents for…
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18 and Up?
Court Bonds 10.14.2022

Co-ops, Trusts and Special Needs?

Families of children with special needs have extra to worry about in life—and estate planning. What happens, for example, if a family intends to leave a co-op apartment to an adult child with special needs?…
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Co-ops, Trusts and Special Needs?