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		<title>Making an Inventory List for Your Last Will and Testament</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making an inventory list before sitting down to draft your Last Will and Testament will help ensure you include all of your property in your estate plan. This inventory is nothing more than a list of your important possessions that you want to give away when you die. For simplicity&#8217;s sake, you should limit your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Your Trust Your IRA Beneficiary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your IRA (Individual Retirement Account) is limited in ways that a personal Revocable Living Trust wouldn&#8217;t be. A trust allows you to maintain a great deal of control over your assets and provide specific contingencies for the distributions, while an IRA is more limited in what personal solutions it offers. One option is to name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executor / Personal Representative Compensation and Reimbursement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estate&#8217;s executor &#8212; the person responsible for administering the estate, also sometimes called the personal representative &#8212; is entitled to receive monetary compensation and reimbursement for any out-of-pocket expenses. There are some limitations to this, however, and the executor should not merely bill the estate for services; the probate court must approve any compensation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Your Own Handwritten Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note hastily written and left on your bedside table right before you pass away may be sufficient to act as a will, but not always. This type of will is known as a holographic will, and is accepted only in some states. In order for holographic wills to be recognized in the states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I Have the Right to See the Will?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Probate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interested person]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When someone dies, all of the individual&#8217;s assets including cash, bank accounts, real estate, automobiles, jewelry, electronics, clothes, and any other personal possession becomes part of that person&#8217;s estate. Someone who dies with a will is referred to by courts as having &#8220;died testate.&#8221; Someone who dies without a will dies intestate, and the distribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Wills and Advance Directives</title>
		<link>http://testatewill.com/estate-planning/living-wills-advance-directives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Advance Health Care Directive, also known as a Living Will or Advance Directive &#8212; not &#8220;Advanced Directive&#8220;, as this implies that it is a complicated estate planning tool &#8212; is a way to express your health care desires in the event that you are incapacitated. Most commonly, a living will specifies whether you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A General Strategy for Reducing Estate Tax</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estate tax planning is a vital part of your end-of-life plan, especially if you want more money to go to your family than to the government. Not all estate planning attorneys make decisions on the basis of taxes, so it is important to find an attorney with tax experience or hire an accountant to review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Responsible for the Debts of My Deceased Spouse?</title>
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		<comments>http://testatewill.com/probate/deceased-spouse-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[community debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community property]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An individual&#8217;s estate is responsible for repaying any debts that the individual left outstanding at death. The executor of the estate will use the individual&#8217;s assets &#8212; either cash from bank accounts or money gained from liquidating property &#8212; to pay back creditors. Spouses of deceased individuals may worry that creditors will attempt to collect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying Without a Will</title>
		<link>http://testatewill.com/intestate/dying-without-a-will/</link>
		<comments>http://testatewill.com/intestate/dying-without-a-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Intestate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you die without drafting a valid will, you are referred to as having &#8220;died intestate&#8221;. When this happens, the distribution of your assets is governed by your state&#8217;s intestate succession laws; essentially, the state automatically applies a standard set of rules for the distribution of your property in the absence of any specific instructions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why New Parents Need a Will</title>
		<link>http://testatewill.com/wills/why-new-parents-need-a-will/</link>
		<comments>http://testatewill.com/wills/why-new-parents-need-a-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Testate Will</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author of the book Estate Planning Smarts, Deborah L. Jacobs, was interviewed by Christine Benz of Morningstar Inc. In the interview, Ms. Jacobs spoke about why new parents need a will to protect their children: The most important thing — and it&#8217;s something that I recommend people do almost immediately after becoming parents — is [...]]]></description>
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