Pause Your Social Security for Now
Did you begin collecting your social security benefits sooner than you actually needed to? If you did this means that you could be affecting the amount of benefits that you ...
Avoid These Financial Planning Mistakes
Retirement is expensive and tricky. Balancing an income from investment accounts, pensions and retirement funds takes a steady hand and some knowhow. Don’t fall prey to these common mistakes and ...
Investing as a Senior
Many seniors believe that they simply don’t have time to continue investing like they did earlier in life. This is simply not true. While it might take a little more ...
Coming to the Stano Office Prepared
If you are looking to come in to the Stano Group’s offices to have an elder planning discussion, you might want to prepare ahead of time. Here are some things ...
Inherited IRAs and Bankruptcy
Generally speaking, retirement funds are protected assets when a person files bankruptcy. This generally means they cannot be taken away as part of a bankruptcy. What about a situation where ...
Conditional Receipt of a Life Insurance Policy
The sudden death of a loved one is hard to deal with. This can only be compounded by your loved one not having a life insurance policy. What if the ...
Make Sure Your Legal Agent Will be able to Act on your Behalf
Having someone that can act for you when you are unable to is the whole reason for drawing up a power of attorney. Are you in danger of having your ...
Think Twice About Gifting Your Home
It may seem like a great idea to give your home to your kids or other relatives. It reduces the tax burden you have to pay, you can still live ...
Maximize Your Social Security Benefits
Many retirees rely on Social Security as their main source of income in their retirement years. In order to do this, here are some tips to maximize your Social Security ...
Have Power Over Your Assets With a Will
It may be an unpleasant topic to tackle, but none of us will be here forever. If you do not have a will, then you leave it up to the ...