But we had a good crowd of Midwesterners at the workshop last night. If we lived in New Orleans, I definitely would not have scheduled a workshop.
Workshops are the second Tuesday of each month in the Johnny Carson room at the Enterprise Center. If you attend a future workshop please enter from the west lobby and it is on the first floor. ...
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Three Estate Planning Implications from the New Tax Law
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act made many changes in tax law and below I discuss three major estate planning implications.
The headline item is that the estate tax exemption is now $22.4 million for married couples and $11.2 million for single people. This means that the federal estate tax will be paid by even fewer Nebraskans. (But note that the Nebraska state inheritance tax is still the law. )
Many couples planned for a bypass trust when the taxable estate amounts were much lower. That made sense at the time. But with the new higher estate tax exemptions maybe the plan should be revisited. When the second spouse in a bypass trust plan ...
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The Facts from the Editors of BloombergView
"By 2050, the U.S. will have almost 90 million people aged 65 and over, and more than half will need long-term care at some point. Yet only a sliver of that group can afford the premiums insurers require. As of 2015, private insurance covered less than 10 percent of the U.S. spending on long-term care -- and the private market has been shrinking."
"Medicare covers only a short period of care after a person has been hospitalized. That leaves Medicaid, the state-administered program for the poor. But it kicks in only after people have burned through their assets -- precisely the outcome that insurance is meant to avoid. The paperwork ...
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