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  Essential duties of executors include settling the financial affairs of the deceased and distributing assets to heirs based on the will. Sometimes, this means the executor is expected to sell belongings and real estate,…
Read Moreabout Executing an Estate: What’s Prudent?

  If you have made a will, you have probably also designated an executor to carry out the intentions expressed in it. Good for you—these are tasks many of us just can’t seem to bring…
Read Moreabout Wills, Executors and Documents

The majority of small business owners significantly underestimate digital security risks, and are therefore unprepared and unprotected for data breaches. The results are costly—and devastating. Here’s what you need to know to protect your business—and…
Read Moreabout Stay Open: Protection Is Available

As a retirement plan sponsor, you have a fiduciary responsibility to make sure that the plan fees are reasonable. In addition to the fact that it is in the best interest of everyone to avoid…
Read Moreabout Retirement Plan Fees?

If you have ever been in a hurry at Newark Liberty International Airport, you probably already know that although only twenty-five years old, the monorail is, well, let’s just say not up to speed. Fortunately,…
Read Moreabout Trains, Planes—and Bids!

Around the country, there is a lot of thought—and money—going into designing and building the hospitals of our near future. From glass-walled research facilities for catastrophic childhood diseases, to hospitals with more private rooms—and earthquake…
Read Moreabout Hospital Building Pushes Ahead  

Among the many dangers of big, headline making cyber attacks is distraction. At the moment, for example, while we are all busy wondering about the availability of gas, what ransomware can do, and so on,…
Read Moreabout Retirement Plans and Cybersecurity: Ongoing Threats

Opening up the office? Woohoo! Congrats! An actual coffee break with colleagues has never been sweeter, right? Whose birthday needs a cake? Just remember, re-opening creates new opportunities for cyber criminals too. They’re ready—are you?…
Read Moreabout New Opps for Cyber Criminals

Yes, it’s OK to talk about—and it’s even a new norm: planning for the well being of your pet after you die. Though setting aside funds for the future of beloved pets was likely not…
Read Moreabout Pets and Estate Planning?