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Whether you collect vintage, antique, or classic cars— it is crucial to have asset protection and estate planning in place to keep these treasured and iconic assets protected and in the family. 14 Feb
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Estate Planning: Should You Keep Your Classic Cars in a Trust?

A trust is a legal agreement between the person creating the trust, known as the settlor, and a trustee. The trustee is responsible for managing the trust's assets and distributing them according to the settlor's wishes. 14 Feb
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Understanding Trusts: Estate Planning in Ontario

These conversations can be difficult, but they’ll save your children from added stress. Find out how and when to have "The Talk" with your adult kids about your estate plans and their inheritance... 03 Feb
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How To Talk About Your Estate Plans with Your Adult Children

If you have a rare or unusual collection, you need to ensure that it's properly accounted for before you pass away. The most failsafe way of doing this is to include your collection in your estate plan. Working with the right appraiser is key! 06 Jan
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Unusual Collectibles: Working with the Right Appraiser is Key

Acquiring a classic car is easy. Mapping out a succession plan for your collection is an artform. That’s where Carnection Advisors come in... 10 Nov
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Classic Car Collectors: Mapping Out a Succession Plan for Your Vehicles

A living will is an important part of advance care planning, which involves discussing and preparing for future health care decisions in the event you can’t make them. Learn where to find advance directive forms in your state. 31 Oct
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Advance Care Planning: Preparing a Living Will

A family trust allows individuals to create and preserve a financial legacy while at the same time protecting their assets for their family. Let’s take a closer look at the key tax benefits and issues associated with family trusts. 12 Oct
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Using Family Trusts for Tax and Estate Planning

When it’s time to do your estate planning – and it’s actually never too soon to begin – you may find the process, at first, to be somewhat bewildering. Using a trust company can make things a lot easier when it’s time to plan and execute your estate. 06 Jul
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Who Can You Trust to Help Reduce the Stress of Estate Planning?

By approaching estate planning with openness and involving your family in the conversation, you create a legacy of love, respect, and financial security that extends beyond your lifetime. 20 Jun
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What & When Should You Tell Your Children About Their Inheritance?

All of our personal losses, such as the death of a loved one, have financial aspects. Survivors are faced with making money decisions and dealing with finances while they are grieving. There is nothing wrong with asking for help. 06 Jun
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Loss & Transition: Coping with Finances While Coping with Grief

It might be the hardest part of caregiving — watching your loved one slip away step by terrible step, knowing you can’t stop the decline and grieving the loss, long before they’re actually gone. 16 May
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Five Steps for Dealing with Anticipatory Grief

A substitute decision-maker is a designated person authorized to make decisions on behalf of a patient who is unable to make important decisions about their own personal care. 13 May
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Understanding the Role of Substitute Decision-Maker in Ontario

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