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Nina Stillman: Posted on Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:19 PM
If you are like most people, you get into the
spirit of giving during the holiday season. Coupled with tax incentives, the
spirit of the holidays causes a much expected disproportion of charitable
donations during the end of every year. Since 2012 has just started, it’s a
good time to consider being generous now instead of next December.
There are a number of frequently forgotten
advantages to giving early in the year. Above all, if you start to plan your
donations now, you will get to spread the sum of the donation over several
months instead of having a large sum withdrawn from your account all at once. |
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Nina Stillman: Posted on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:35 AM
 It is National Estate Planning Week! (ok so we had to declare it for ourselves!) What is estate planning and what are the basics you ask? Why is it important? Estate planning is a process utilizing the advice of trusted advisers to assist you with decisions about how to protect and distribute your assets(including your business if you own one) when you pass away, who should pay your bills and take care of your monetary affairs for you in the event that you are living but unable to take care of them yourself, and also who should make medical decisions for you based upon your wishes in the event that you are injured but cannot communicate your desires clearly. |
Wills, Estate Planning, minor children, Life Insurance, tax savings, Business law', business taxes, buy sell agreement, corpoation, corporation, dissolution, exit strategy, partnership, sale of business, succession planning, taxes, trusted advisor, disability, retirement, guardians, power of attorney, Charity, asset management
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Nina Stillman: Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:02 PM
 I had the wonderful experience a few weeks ago thanks to my friend Pete Laffertyof Merril Lynch, to volunteer for a day at a Habitat for Humanity site and help build a house in North Minneapolis. You will all think that I am crazy, but I and 6-7 other volunteers spent about 5 hours swinging hammers and staple guns and the other hour was spent eating lunch and "putting a few things" together. It was fabulous!!!! The wall sections of the house were pre-made for us and we sheathed them with plywood (the hammering) and then we covered the plywood with water barrier paper( the staple guns). |
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