If you love your pets like millions of Americans do, ensuring their safety is always a top priority. This commitment becomes especially critical when planning for your pet’s future after you pass away. Establishing a clear estate plan for your animals is simply the responsible thing to do. We often rely on insightful financial and … Read more
What happens when you die without a will? The short answer: generally speaking, nothing good. Those who die without a will – referred to by attorneys as “dying intestate” – often doom their survivors to costly and confusing probate procedures and even expensive legal battles as heirs fight over what they consider their “rightful share” … Read more
Over the years here at the Blog, we’ve analyzed hundreds of articles describing how retirees can protect their estates for the benefit of their heirs. Mastering your estate plan is a foundational pillar of LifePlanning, the holistic planning approach pioneered by Rajiv Nagaich to ensure total retirement preparedness. While many experts offer guidance, we must … Read more
Here at AgingOptions and Life Point Law, our staff has helped prepare thousands of estate planning documents. One of the most essential of these is what’s called a financial power of attorney, or FPOA. It’s a document that stipulates who will act as your agent in handling your finances if and when you become unable … Read more
If you are part of an unmarried couple—two people sharing a home and a life without a marriage certificate—you are part of a significant national trend. Recent data shows the marriage rate in the United States continues to decline while the number of cohabiting couples is steadily rising. Whether this shift is viewed as a … Read more
The scenario is increasingly common. An aging parent faces steady decline and eventually needs regular care. The adult children feel ill-equipped and overwhelmed, since the family has made little if any provision for long-term care. Eventually, and often reluctantly, one sibling steps up and becomes primary caregiver for the aging parent. This challenging role puts … Read more
Stereotypes about older adults abound, and one of the most prevalent is that the majority of seniors are just plain stubborn. Once we get to a certain age, the prevailing wisdom goes, we become set in our ways, unwilling to try new things or new ideas, with our heels firmly dug in. While this notion … Read more
Here at AgingOptions, through our partnership with Life Point Law, our staff has helped prepare thousands of estate planning documents. One of the most essential of these is what’s called a financial power of attorney, or FPOA. It’s a document that stipulates who will act as your agent in handling your finances if and when … Read more
This week, our focus on the Blog involves financial planning and the essential role your financial advisor plays in preparing you for retirement. But your financial advisor shouldn’t operate in a vacuum, isolated from other members of your “retirement team.” For this article, we’re considering the question: what good things can happen when a retiree’s … Read more
When a loved one dies, the sense of loss can be overwhelming. Yet even in the midst of grief, there’s usually a barrage of urgent things the family has to attend to: making funeral arrangements, handling the estate, perhaps caring for a house or even re-homing a beloved pet. The “to do” list can grow … Read more
Will your plan for retirement lead to disaster if your health fails? Will you end up forced into institutional care, go broke paying for care, or become a burden on your family?
For millions of Americans, the answer is yes. This video explains why retirement turns into a nightmare for so many people and how completing this course can keep these nightmares from happening to you.
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Since the AgingOptions Radio Show first began airing in the Pacific Northwest in 2006, elder law attorney Rajiv Nagaich has been helping people answer some of life’s toughest questions. In this comprehensive anthology, drawn from thousands of hours of AgingOptions Radio Show broadcasts, listen to Rajiv Nagaich answer callers’ questions about retirement planning. His answers are packed with important nuggets of information that will help you create your own LifePlan for retirement. It’s a recording you’ll want to listen to again and again.
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As an elder law attorney, Rajiv Nagaich has spent more than two decades helping older adults and their family caregivers cope with retirement plan failure. Despite doing exactly what their trusted advisors had told them to do—enrolling in Medicare, saving plenty of money, buying long-term care insurance, and creating an estate plan—Rajiv's clients found themselves forced into institutional care, assets lost to unplanned care costs, and a burden to their families. In Your Retirement: Dream or Disaster, you will learn the shocking truth about why this happens—and what you can do to avoid it. This book is a must read if you want to avoid the hidden traps in retirement planning advice that turn life into a living nightmare for 70% of Americans.
What does it take to avoid the nursing home, avoid going broke and avoid burdening your family during your retirement years? That’s the question elder law attorney Rajiv Nagaich answers in Master Your Future, the groundbreaking program that has aired more than 1,500 times on public television stations nationwide. The Master Your Future Program DVD is a great a way to watch (and rewatch) Rajiv’s shocking revelations and piercing insights about the state of retirement planning in America. Drawing on his own family’s experience and that of thousands of clients during his 20+ years as an elder law attorney, Rajiv explains why traditional approaches fall short and shows how this failure results in 70% of American retirees being forced into institutional care. Rajiv then offers a surprisingly simple solution to create the retirement of your dreams.
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