By: Barrett R. King, Esq. barrett@elvilleassociates.com Social Security Disability Insurance “pays benefits to you and certain members of your family if you are ‘insured,’ meaning that you worked long enough and paid Social Security taxes.”1 In order to have worked “long enough,” you must have forty ‘credits’. One credit is earned for every $1,220 in …
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Consider the Impact Your Inheritance Will Have on the Beneficiary of Your Estate
October 1, 2015By: Olivia R. Holcombe-Volke, Esq. olivia@elvilleassociates.com Effective estate planning must contemplate not only your own desires or preferences as to whom or what will receive your estate after death, but also what impact that inheritance might have on the beneficiary. The most common example of why and when this is important is when an intended …