Protect Assets With Estate Planning Including Will
When you own a home with a partner who has children from another relationship you may be wondering how to protect your assets. While it's good to buy a home as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, a will can ensure that your property inheritance desires are met. Estate planning, including a will, can protect other assets as well.
Trust Helps Save On Inheritance Tax
Setting up a trust for inheritance purposes ensures that assets are divided the way the deceased person wanted. A trust can also help save on inheritance taxes. Upon death, the assets in the trust are divided up among the beneficiaries.
How Is Property Divided With No Will?
How will property be divided if there is no will? How the property will be divided depends on how the title to the property is held.
Ownership Of Property Questioned During Divorce
Even if you are married, you can own title in your own name. You can also own title in the name of a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or even in a trust. As a general rule, property that is purchased during a marriage might give the spouse rights in that property. Whether the property was purchased in escrow probably doesn't matter. The escrow agent is only obligated to follow the instructions in the agreement to close the transaction and does not have a duty to advise the buyer or the seller as to the merits or pitfalls of the transaction.
Keep Finances Separate From Boyfriend’s
A woman wants to buy a home with her boyfriend, who is married and not legal separated. It's important to protect your own finances and assets when in a relationship, especially a tricky one like this.
Understanding Inheritance Of Property
A woman inherited a home along with her brother. After her brother passed away, is the woman now the sole owner of the inherited home? How the title of the home is outlined will determine who now owns the brother's share of the inherited home.