Now that our income tax returns have been filed for 2018 (both federal and state), I wanted to share a brief follow up about our results. Almost exactly one year ago, I published an article called – How Tax Optimization Will Save Us Thousands of Dollars as Our Income Grows. In this article I shared […]
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Over the past several weeks, my wife and I have been starting to take over the finances of one of our parents. This parent has been widowed now for about 2 years … and has basically destroyed any type of financial estate planning that had been done by the couple in the past. Just in […]
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When it comes to tracking our personal finances, one of the hardest things to estimate is the value of our home. My wife and I know what we paid for our home just over 10 years ago. We also know the terms of our mortgage … 30 year fixed rate loan at 4.375%. But estimating […]
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My wife and I have been thinking a lot lately about what would happen to our kids and assets if we were to die in the next decade. We want to make sure our kids are taken care of (especially as minors), if my wife and I both were to pass away unexpectedly. Developing a […]
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For many years my wife and I have been avoiding this question – What will happen to our money and our kids when we die? Even worse than worrying about our estate (our money) is what would happen to our children if we were both to die at the same time? This uncertainty around the […]
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