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Just Married: Newlywed Estate Planning Cheat Sheet
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A Business by Any Other Name may be a “Hobby”
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5 Avoidable Mistakes in the Will You Write
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Cultivating a “Small Business Edge”
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Helping Aging Parents Manage Their Personal Finances
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The death of my rock and roll, and the need for estate planning
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401(k) Plans for Small Business Owners
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Estate Planning Trivia
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The ABC’s of Estate Planning
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The Equifax Breach is Worse Than Imagined
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A Small Business Owner’s Guide to Payroll Taxes
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Charitable Giving—Not Just for the Rich and Famous!
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Target-Date Funds Are Worrying Me
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Do You Have A Bad Financial Planner?
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Questions to Ask A Prospective Financial Advisor
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LAW ADVOCACY FAMILY FINANCE
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Understanding the Estate Planning Process
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Women Entrepreneurs
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Advance Directives In Estate Planning
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LAFF December Issue
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Count Your Blessings
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Estate Planning for Everyone
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Where There’s a Plan, There’s a Continued Business
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LAFF January Issue
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Long Term Care
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Preserving Your Legacy
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LAFF February Issue
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Estate Planning For Your Digital Assets
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Start Up Your Business
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Planning Your Estate Before Remarriage
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An Intriguing Exit Strategy for Today’s Business Owner
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Introduction to Tax Strategy
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Bobbleheads and other free swag star in baseball tax dispute
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The Law That Made Facebook What It Is Today
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Can a Living Trust Replace Your Will?
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Drafting Your Own Will
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LAFF April Issue
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Titling Assets Properly
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What to Know About Tax Audits
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Drafting Your Own Will
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Reviewing Life Insurance Plan
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LAFF May Issue
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Planning for the Unexpected
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LAFF June Issue
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Acquaint Family with Your Financial Affairs
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Why every company should embrace the World Cup
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To Be Or Not To Be (Entrepreneur)
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What Price, Love?
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12 Estate Planning Must-Dos
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Summer Job Tax Tips
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LAFF July Issue
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How Setting A Schedule Can Make You Less Productive
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A Glass Slipper for the Stroke of Midnight — Estate Planning Fundamentals
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10 Smart Uses for Your Tax Refund
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Is Estate Planning Still Necessary?
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Borrowing Responsibly and Managing Debt
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KitKat lost its trade mark case: what you need to know
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Pros and Cons of Probate
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Business Succession Considerations for Small Business Owners
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Increasing Productivity with Lean Thinking
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Draft a Retirement Wish List for Your Financial Adviser
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Advance Directives for Your Future Care
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Green Business = Smart Business
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Small business owners are getting a new incentive to sell to their employee
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Filling in the Picture about Your Financial and Personal Affairs
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Assisted Living: The New Kid on the Block
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Aretha Franklin Died Without a Will And now her $80 million estate is in probate court
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Agree Now, Avoid Headaches Later
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How Fast Should You Grow Your Business?
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Ten Common Estate Planning Mistakes
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Disability; Are Your Business Interests Protected?
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Valuing a Closely Held Business
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The Triple Tax Benefits of Health Savings Accounts
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Being Prepared for Future Care Possibilities
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5 Big Problems to Solve Before You Retire
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A Tower of Strength; Insurance Against the Unthinkable
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Estate Planning for Lifetime Partners
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Where There’s a Plan, There’s a Continued Business
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Helping Your Heirs While Helping Others
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Boosting Employee Performance with Ergonomics
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Accentuate Your Pension
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LAFF October Issue
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Understanding the Estate Planning Process
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Nonqualified Plans: Baiting the Benefit Hook
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3 Financial Planning Steps
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Achieving Superior Customer Service
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Can Creditors Break Down the FLP Door?
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Estate Planning for Everyone
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Financing Your Own Business
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Revisiting Elder Care Issues
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Business Owners Recognize the Importance of Personal Wealth
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Liquidity and Your Estate
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Grant Peace of Mind with a Financial Inventory
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How Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of Tax Reform; The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017
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Keeping Appraised
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LAFF November Issue
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Perking Up Benefits; Executive Bonus Plans
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Choosing Your Estate Executor
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Americans Change Jobs Frequently
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Stan Lee – The Man Who Gave us Superheros
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Making A Year-End Tax Plan
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LAFF December Issue
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A “Curtain Call” for Your Company
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Guardianship for Your Children
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AMT—The Tax Trap
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Assessing Business Risks
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A Shopper's Guide to Tax Consultants
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A Menu of Trust Options
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Family Involvement Can Be Good Business
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2 Helpful Tax Strategies
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CRTs—Appreciating the Gifts of Charitable Gifting
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Solid Gold: Good Records Pay Off
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Estate Planning: A Team Effort
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Online Reviews Protecting Your Company’s Reputation
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A Working Parent’s Guide to the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
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Survivorship Life: A Win-Win Proposal
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10 Tips for Small Biz Owners
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Get Your Tax Act Together
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Avoid Common Estate Planning Mistakes
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Business Survival Planning for the Sole Proprietor
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LAFF January Issue
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The Tax Advantages of Purchasing Annuities
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Survivorship Life Insurance: Preserving Your Business Legacy
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Social Networking Your Way to Success
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Establishing “Material Participation” in a Business
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Estate Planning Challenges for Unmarried Couples
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Keeping Sight of Personal Priorities
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Some Americans Enjoy Doing Their Taxes
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Smart Steps for Small Estates
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Business Owners; Avoid Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
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The “Taxing Effects” of Selling Your Home
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Financial Care for Special Needs Children
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Raising Capital for Your Business Needs
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Estimating Your Federal Estate Tax
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Estate Planning for Intellectual Property
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Get SMART: Tips for Effective Goal Setting
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Claiming the Medical Expenses Tax Deduction
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Second Marriage—Estate Planning Strategies
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It Can Pay to Employ Family Members
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7 Ways to File Your Taxes for Free
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Advance Directives Essential for All Ages
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LAFF February Issue
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Improving Your Presentation Skills
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Tax Consequences of Bartering for Businesses
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“UGMA” and “UTMA” in Action
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A Universal Idea for Business Owners
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Charitable Giving Yields Tax Benefits for Businesses
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Dividing the Family Pie
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Planning Continues Upon Retirement
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Managing RMDs From Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts
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A Buffer for Your Estate
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Business Forum
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A Trust Primer
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Tax Deductions for Donating Art
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Answers to Common Estate Planning Questions
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A Buy-Sell Agreement Instead of Deferred Compensation?
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Life Changes and Your Taxes
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Consistent Estate Basis Reporting Rules
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LAFF March Issue
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Maintaining an Even Keel with Key Person Insurance
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A Short Course in Personal and Dependent Exemptions
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What to Expect When Working with Your Estate Planning Team
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Business Succession Planning
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Income Tax Filing
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A Look at Guardianship and Older Adults
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Family Business—Laying the Groundwork for Success
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Location Matters When Choosing a Retirement Home
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Unburden Your Loved Ones with a Financial Inventory
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Assuring Your Company’s Survival
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A Mountain of Debt to Scale: How will It Affect You?
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Long-Term Care, Understanding Your Options
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Are You on Firm Financial Footing, “Personally” Speaking?
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Taxing Issues for Divorcing Couples
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What Makes Up Your Estate?
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Being Your Own Boss
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Year-End Tax Planning Strategies
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Dividing Your Estate: A Practical Approach
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A Business “Will” can Go a Long Way
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How Much Tax Should I Have Withheld?
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LAFF April Issue
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The Many Uses of Trusts
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Catch the Spirit: Start Your Own Business!
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Your Tax Strategy: Timing Is Everything
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Liquidity and Your Estate
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Retiring Business Owners - Plan for Succession
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Claiming a Deduction for Your Home Office
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Important Steps in Preserving Your Estate
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Help Protect Your Business with Disability Income Insurance
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Which Filing Status Makes Sense for Me
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Advance Directives: Quality of Life Issues
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S Corporations vs. LLCs: Which Entity Is Right For You?
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Justifying Late Tax Return Filings
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Ten Tips for Creating an Effective Estate Plan
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Calculating Your Break-Even Point
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Keep Land in the Family with Conservation Easements
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Benefit Trade-Offs in Property Titling
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Retirement Planning and the “One-Man Band”
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Keeping Taxes Low When Making Loans to Family Members
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Long Term Care: Tax Breaks Now and in the Future
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Wealth-Transfer Taxes Can Take a Toll on Small Businesses
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Guiding Light: The IRS and Letter Rulings
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Using a Durable Power of Attorney
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LAFF May Issue
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Your Business: Solutions for Succession
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Minimizing the Risk of Getting Audited
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Practical Uses for Practical Trusts
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Key Person Insurance: Cash, When It’s Needed Most
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Tax Act Tightens Rules on Vehicle Donations
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An Overview of Asset Preservation with A/B Trusts
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Preparing for a Small-Business Conference
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Tax Advantages of Turning a Hobby into a Business
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Protecting Your Future with a Living Will
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Buy-Sell Agreements: Protecting Your Family’s Future
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Tax Tips from the IRS
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Estate Planning and Your Residence: When the Grass Really is Greener!
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Marketing Budget Limited This Year? Try Grassroots Marketing
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In the Driver's Seat: Tax Deductions
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An Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust Can Strengthen Your Business Estate Plan
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Without a Business “Will,” It Won’t
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How Bunching Expenses Can Enable Taxpayers to Continue to Itemize
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Trustees and Your Living Trust—Making the Right Choices
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Putting Your Company’s Surplus Funds to Work
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The Tax Advantages of Charitable Gift Annuities
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LAFF June Issue
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Appraising Your Appraiser
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First, Break All the Rules—What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
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Guidelines for Deducting Mortgage Points
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Choosing Your Executor Requires Careful Consideration
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Perk Up Your Employees
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Like-Kind Exchanges: Still a Viable Tax Shelter
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CRTs: Doing Well by Doing Good
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Setting a Price for Buying or Selling a Business
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Maximize Your Credits, Deductions, and Exemptions
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Minimizing Taxes with Private Annuities
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Employers Seek To Manage High Cost Health Plan Claimants
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Planning Ahead to Avoid the AMT
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Solidifying Your Future with Advance Directives
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What's Your Management Style?
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Reporting Tips as Taxable Income
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Taxes and Your Estate: Reconcile Your Domicile
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The Value of a Mentoring Program
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LAFF July Issue
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Taxpayer Bill Of Rights
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Your Estate and Life Insurance: It All Adds Up
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Stay flexible to succeed in a tight talent market
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Will Your Home Office Pass the “Test”?
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Shielding Your Insurance from Estate Taxes
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Family Employees Bring Home Tax Benefits
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Child Care Credit: You Don't Have to Live in a Shoe
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Privacy Rules Emphasize Importance of Advance Medical Directives
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Returnships: Internships for Professionals Re-Entering the Workforce
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Taxes and Scholarship Income
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Advance Directives: Part II - Health Care Issues
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Succession Planning with Buy-Sell Agreements
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The IRS and Educational Deductions
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Deferral of Estate Taxes
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Business Owners and Executives: Don’t Forget Personal Planning, Too
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Job Searching and Your Taxes
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The Power of Legal Protection
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Strategies for Success: Business Succession Planning
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For the Record Keep Those Important Documents
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LAFF August Issue
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The “What” and “Why” Behind Estate Planning
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GRATs: A Planning Tool for Business Succession
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Tax Audits: Cause for Concern?
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Loaning Money to Your Children
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A Quick Estate Planning Quiz
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Securing Your Family’s Future
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How Trusts Can Benefit You and Your Family
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Securing Future Care with a Special Needs Trust
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Dealing with Elder Care Issues
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Ensuring Continuity with the Disability Buy-Out
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Claiming Your Parent as a Dependent
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Estate Planning for Your Life Insurance Policies
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“Free For All”
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LAFF September Issue
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Planning Your Itemized Deductions
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Watching Over Others
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Preserving Your Family Business with Long Term Care Planning
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Taxpayers Satisfied With IRS Interactions
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Trusts—From Park Avenue to Main Street, U.S.A.
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Managing Your Risk with Key Employee Life Insurance
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Maximizing Health Insurance Tax Deductions
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Helping Elders Manage Their Assets
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Business Planning for Continuity
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Have You Been Snagged by the Alternative Minimum Tax?
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Family Foundations: Benefits Stretch beyond Charitable Giving
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Estate Planning: Protection from Having to Sell Your Business
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Which Came First: Basis or Gain?
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Who’ll Be in Control When You Can’t Be?
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Business Owners: Disability Income Protection
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LAFF October Issue
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IRS Extends Two-Year Limit on Innocent Spouse Relief
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Where There’s a Will, There’s Way
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Funding a Business Buyout
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5 Ways to Build A Better Tax Plan
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Don't Be Surprised . . . Get Appraised!
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Hire Your Children and Help Them Save
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Tax Planning for Family Business Succession
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Advantages of Probate
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Business Succession Planning
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The Best Tax Tips before Year End
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Long-Term Care: Better to be Safe than Sorry
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Business Succession Planning: Is There Life After Death?
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Saturday’s Child Must Work for a Living
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Reduce Future Uncertainty with Advance Directives
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10 Tips for Small Business Owners
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IRS Problems: Not as “Taxing” as You Think
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Choosing Your Place of Domicile
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Business Forum: Keeping Your Business High and Dry
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LAFF November Issue
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Free Information and Help from the IRS
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Community Property and Life Insurance
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Disability and the American Business
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Save Those Tax Records
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How to Divide an Inheritance Equally
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Estate Planning Challenges Facing S Corporations
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Taking Advantage of Advertising and Marketing Deductions
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Wealth Transfer Taxes Hit Small Firms
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Funding Buy-Sell Agreements with Life Insurance
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Taking Advantage of Business Travel and Entertainment Deductions
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Your Financial Affairs: What Your Children Should Know
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Involving the Family can be Good Business
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Six Basic Tax Planning Techniques
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Guardianship for Your Children: A Look at the Issues
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Key Employees: Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets
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Types of Tax Audits
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If Home is “Where You Hang Your Hat,” Where’s Your Domicile?
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Protecting Against Loss with Business Interruption Insurance
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Year-End Housekeeping
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Long-Term Care An Issue to be Faced
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Split Dollar Benefits for S Corporations
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Avoiding Pitfalls of Interest Deduction Rules
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Protect Your Estate with an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
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Your Business: Family History or Continuing Legacy?
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“Fed” Watching—the Rise and Fall of the Economy
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Select Trustees with Care
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A Prescription for Disability
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National Taxpayer Advocate Warns the IRS Is Underfunded
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What Property is Included in Your Estate?
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Business Continuity and Long-Term Care Considerations
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Supreme Court Rules That Severance Pay Is Subject to FICA Taxes
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5 Avoidable Mistakes in the Will You Write
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Business Succession: A Family Affair
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Tax Return Filing Tips
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Intellectual Property: A Planning Issue for the 21st Century
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Can You Afford to Pass Up Key Person Insurance?
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LAFF January Issue
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What If You Can’t Pay the IRS on Time?
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Putting Trusts to Work for You
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Disability Income Insurance: People at Work—Money at Work
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Beating the Transfer Tax Trap
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Revisiting Elder Care Issues
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Employers Adjust Benefits In Response To Legal Changes
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Claiming the Medical Expenses Tax Deduction
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Solidify Your Future: Use Advance Directives
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Do You Need D&O Coverage?
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Establishing "Material Participation" in a Business
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Ten Common Estate Planning Mistakes
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Does the Buck Stop with Lending Institutions?
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Free Tax Preparation
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The ABC’s of Estate Planning
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Online Reviews: Protecting Your Company’s Reputation
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Income Tax Filing: What You Should Know
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Understanding the Estate Planning Process
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Perking Up Benefits: Executive Bonus Plans
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Meeting the April 15th Deadline
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Why Plan Your Estate?
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LAFF February Issue
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Social Networking Your Way to Success
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Good Records Pay Off
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Whom Should I Name as Executor of My Will?
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The Entrepreneurial Challenge
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Resolving IRS Problems may be Easier Than You Think
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12 Estate Planning Must-Dos
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What is a ‘poison pill’?
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Some Americans Enjoy Doing Their Taxes
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A Menu of Trust Options
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A Tower of Strength
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The "Taxing Effects" of Selling Your Home
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Being Prepared for Future Care Possibilities
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Being Your Own Boss
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LAFF March Issue
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What Determines Your IRA’s Required Minimum Distribution Amount?
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Can a Living Trust Replace Your Will?
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Does Your Company Have a Succession Plan?
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Solid Gold: Good Records Pay Off
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Dividing the Family Pie
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Family Involvement Can Be Good Business
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The Basics of Tax Basis
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Estate Planning Challenges for Unmarried Couples
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Keeping Sight of Personal Priorities
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Using the IRS Tele-Tax Service Line
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Filling in the Picture about Your Financial and Personal Affairs
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Life Insurance: A Tool for Businesses
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Year-End Tax Planning Strategies
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Helping Your Heirs While Helping Others
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Raising Capital for Your Business Needs
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“What Price, Love?” Paying the Marriage Penalty
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Is Estate Planning Still Necessary?
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Where There’s a Plan, There’s a Continued Business
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Tax Consequences of Bartering for Businesses
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Just Married: Newlywed Estate Planning Cheat Sheet
-
A “Curtain Call” for Your Company?
-
A Mountain of Debt to Scale: How will It Affect You?
-
Keeping Appraised
-
Borrowing Responsibly and Managing Debt
-
Charitable Giving Yields Tax Benefits for Businesses
-
Liquidity and Your Estate
-
Nonqualified Plans: Baiting the Benefit Hook
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Does Your Vehicle Donation Qualify as a Tax Deduction?
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Planning Your Estate before Remarriage
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S Corporations vs. LLCs: Which Entity Is Right For You?
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Estimating Your Federal Estate Tax
-
Smart Steps for Small Estates
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Agree Now, Avoid Headaches Later
-
Get Your Tax Act Together
-
Using a Durable Power of Attorney
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Business Forum: The Personal Side of Your Business
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How Much Tax Should I Have Withheld?
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A Buffer for Your Estate
-
A Business “Will” can Go a Long Way
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In the Driver's Seat: Tax Deductions
-
Benefit Trade-Offs in Property Titling
-
Business Owners: Recognize the Importance of Personal Wealth
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Keep Land in the Family with Conservation Easements
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Important Steps in Preserving Your Estate
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Estate Planning Steps to Protect Yourself in these Uncertain Times
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Family Business: Laying the Groundwork for Success
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LAFF June Issue
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LAFF July Issue
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