Tag: life insurance

Own Life Insurance and Need Money? The Sicker the Better

Don’t cancel a life insurance policy without reading this. You could be throwing away thousands of dollars.

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Outside-of-the-Box Thinking About Long-Term Care Planning–One Size Does Not Fit All

As a shoe aficionado, I have observed that long-term care planning is quickly starting to resemble my closet of 100 pairs of shoes. 

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The Duckett Family

The story of my dear clients, Vernon and Helen Duckett.

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Forever and Ever Amen

My last article “Goodbye in Her (or His) Eyes” was a little hard to read as it discussed situations in which a healthy spouse doesn’t stick around when the other spouse needs long-term care…either by choice or by death. Just a few days after it was published, I heard from an agent who has been …

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Combining Life Insurance or Annuities with Long-Term Care Insurance

It would be easy to say “yes” to long-term care insurance if you didn’t have to come up with new money to pay for it, wouldn’t it? Well, there might just be a way to pull that off by repositioning money you already have. An important tax change was effective January 1, 2010* that has made it easier to combine long-term care insurance with either life insurance or annuities. This article shows three reasons why you might want to do that.

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The Balancing Act

Phyllis Shelton was a guest on Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act” to talk about how caregiving without the help of long term care insurance can crush the dreams of millions of American women, emotionally and financially.

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Motorcycle Accident

In an instant, a tragic accident turned a loving wife into a long term caregiver.

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How Old are People When They Need Long-Term Care?

Last week we established that most long-term care doesn’t happen in a nursing home. Most of it is provided by a primary caregiver in the home. That caregiver is usually a woman, and she could be a daughter or daughter-in-law or a spouse. She could even be a mom, like my cousin who took six …

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