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Inheritance Planning Made 123Easy — 86 episodes

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The Record Album That Almost Stopped Medicare

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The Word That Held Off Medicare for 53 Years

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Same Plane, Same Destination

4

The Three Plays the Pros Run

5

How Are Your Assets Actually Taxed? The Three-Bucket Diagnostic

6

Every Tool in the Life Insurance Box Was Invented for a Problem

7

The Math That Made the Promise Fair

8

The First Life Insurance Policy Ever Sold Ended in a Lawsuit

9

What Would You Keep Doing Without the Paycheck?

10

My Mother-in-Law Has Never Been Busier. My Father-in-Law Still Works. Which One Is Doing Retirement Right?

11

The Gift of a Plan: What the Luckiest Heirs All Have in Common

12

The Folder: What Your Kids Will Need to Find in the First Thirty Days

13

The House They Grew Up In: What Really Happens When Kids Inherit Property

14

The Ten-Year Tax Bomb: What Your IRA Looks Like From Your Kids' Side

15

The Call Your Kids Will Get: Inheritance From the Other Side of the Table

16

The Lobster Roll Trail, Part 2: Cash Only in Harpswell, Sunrise on Cadillac Mountain

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The Lobster Roll Trail, Part 1: Plum Island to Kennebunkport

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What to Do Financially When Your Spouse Dies: The First 90 Days

19

Inherited IRA Rules, Step-Up in Basis, and What Your Kids Actually Receive When Everything Passes to Them

20

Widowed at 75: How to Appeal a Medicare IRMAA Surcharge After the Death of a Spouse

21

Widowed in Your 60s: The Qualifying Surviving Spouse Tax Status and the Social Security Choice Almost Everyone Gets to Make

22

Widowed at 55: What Happens to Social Security, Health Coverage, and the Plan You Built Together

23

Passing On the House: Step-Up in Basis, Gifting Rules, and the Estate Tax Most Families Will Not Pay

24

The Tax Bill Hiding in Your House: Capital Gains on a Home Sale After 65

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The Fourth Color: When Real Estate Is Part of Your Retirement Income

26

Putting It All Together: A Tax-Smart Way to Draw Your Retirement Paycheck

27

The Social Security Tax Surprise: How Much of Your Benefit Is Taxable

28

Meet IRMAA: The Medicare Surcharge With a Two-Year Memory

29

Filling the Bracket: The Roth Conversion Window Before Age 73

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The Gap Years: Often the Lowest-Tax Window of Your Life

31

The Family Bank: Setting Up the Next Generation While It's Cheap

32

Your Own Life Insurance Could Be Adding to Your Tax Bill

33

The Nine-Month Problem That Forces Families to Sell What They Love

34

The Tax-Free Bucket Most Retirees Are Missing

35

The Policy That Helps You While You're Alive

36

Be Your Own Bank: The Cash Value Most People Never Touch

37

The Inheritance That Has Nothing to Do With Money

38

Do I Need Life Insurance in Retirement? (An Honest Answer)

39

Build the Team Before You Need It

40

Giving While You're Alive to Watch It

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Layering a Windfall Onto an Already-Full Plan

42

The Tax Bill Hiding in a Good Year

43

When the Problem Isn't Growth, It's Coordination

44

The Inheritance You Can See Coming

45

The Hardest Part of Passing On Wealth Isn't the Money

46

You Just Inherited. Now What? (Start by Doing Nothing.)

47

The Conversation No Family Wants to Have First

48

You Have a Will. So You're Covered, Right?

49

The Roth Conversion Deadline You Were Warned About Just Quietly Disappeared

50

The Moment the Power Goes Out

51

The Life Insurance You Bought at 35 Was Built for a Different Job

52

3 Questions You're Afraid to Ask Your Financial Advisor (And Why You Should)

53

Take the Trip. This Is What You Prepared For.

54

Your First RMD Could Quietly Raise Your Medicare Premium Two Years Later

55

You Can Always Make More Money. You Can't Make More Time.

56

6 Problems With Dave Ramsey's Social Security Advice

57

Why the Rules of a Secure Retirement Haven't Changed in 100 Years

58

Do You Actually Need Life Insurance in Retirement?

59

Life Insurance Types: A Plain English Guide for Retirees

60

Fiscal Fridays Episode 2: Things You Thought Were Protecting Your Family

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Why Your Medicare Agent Is About to Call You About Life Insurance

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The Unfair Advantage You Already Paid For

63

The Stories We Lose When We Don't Talk About the Money

64

Grammy Flew to Boston. Her Retirement Plan Said Yes.

65

The Lights Are On, the Cameras Are Rolling, and We Are Doing This Again

66

Your Monthly Budget Is Probably Wrong. Here's How to Fix It.

67

You Already Won. You Just Forgot.

68

How to Talk to Your Parents About Inheritance (Before It's Too Late)

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3,672 People Already Made This Decision. Here's What They Said.

70

You Have Enough Money to Retire. So Why Can't You Pull the Trigger?

71

We've Got $1.1 Million, but Our Advisor Never Talks About Any of This

72

My Father Made a Huge Mistake With His CDs

73

3 Medicare Gaps That Catch Retirees Off Guard

74

He Had $500K at Vanguard and Thought He Was Fine

75

The Hidden Cost of Medicare Plan Loyalty

76

Fiscal Fridays Is Here: A Live Retirement Show Like Nothing You've Seen Before

77

How a Roth Conversion Affects Your Social Security Tax and Medicare Premium

78

The Math Most City of Scottsdale Employees Never Run Before They Retire

79

The Inheritance Plan That Protects Your Kids From Themselves

80

The One Page That Overrides Your Entire Will

81

Is Your Social Security Income Taxable? Here's How to Know

82

Why the Smartest Investors Don't Pick One Strategy

83

The Roth Conversion Window Most Retirees Don't Know Exists

84

Your Medicare Supplement Rate Went Up Again. Here's What You Can Actually Do About It.

85

Medicare Doesn't Cover Your Teeth. Here's What Does.

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Your Kids Will Inherit Your Money. Are They Ready?