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Court Bonds 09.10.2025

Estate Planning: Choosing Your Trustee?

Estate planning involves a lot of important decisions, but few are as critical—or as challenging—as choosing a trustee. While it might seem like a simple ceremonial honor, the reality is that this appointment comes with…
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Estate Planning: Choosing Your Trustee?
ERISA 09.05.2025

Financial Ed At Work

Increasingly, employers are recognizing the importance of providing financial wellness programming in tandem with benefits like the company sponsored 401k. With surveys continuing to point to the importance of financial literacy for all, it’s  great…
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Financial Ed At Work
ERISA 09.05.2025

Homework Season: Retirement Plan Sponsorship

Fall’s in the air, and that means homework’s spread out on the kitchen table. If you are a retirement plan sponsor, you’ve got homework too. Now’s the time to tune into details that might be…
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Homework Season: Retirement Plan Sponsorship
Contract Surety 09.03.2025

Proven Results: Safety

The annual Health and Safety report from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) shines the light on practices proven to reduce jobsite incidents. More safety and less harm is of course good for people—and business, so…
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Proven Results: Safety
Contract Surety 09.03.2025

Best Practice: Clear Communication

Misunderstandings are an overlooked problem in construction. Without consistently effective communication (up, down and all around), misunderstandings run amok, and can frequently be found at the roots of cost overruns, project delays and dissatisfied stakeholders….
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Best Practice: Clear Communication
Court Bonds 09.03.2025

Setting Aside Money For Children?

Although the designation of a guardian to care for minor children can only be made through a will, it’s best to set aside money for them via a trust. Minors cannot directly inherit assets, so…
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Setting Aside Money For Children?
Court Bonds 09.03.2025

Beloved Pet: Will or Trust?

Money for the care of a beloved pet can be designated through either a will or trust, though attorneys advise that trusts do have some advantages over wills. Trusts can be set up to take…
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Beloved Pet: Will or Trust?
Contract Surety 08.28.2025

What Are You Forgetting?

Hiring, onboarding and retaining committed workers? Networking for new business? Having the right equipment at the right time? Carefully considered reaches into new niches? Saying no to projects that won’t end well? Quality results? Clients…
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What Are You Forgetting?
Contract Surety 08.28.2025

Worth Thinking About: Yes or No?

When you own a construction business, it’s easy to fall into the trap of saying “yes” to every job that comes your way. More work means more money, right? Not necessarily. Taking on every project,…
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Worth Thinking About: Yes or No?