Brian Vnak, over at MarketWatch, just penned a piece titled “How to Take the Stress Out of Estate Planning.” He gives four ideas to support his title, among them, number 3: “Gift assets while you’re still living — addition by subtraction.” That’s a good idea, by the way, if only to take the monkey off your back, put there by Andrew Carnegie, who famously said:
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
Yankee’s short piece could have been even shorter, had he talked to me first. The best way to take the stress out of estate planning is to get it done. To do it now. To be done with it.
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