What Estate Planning Steps Should Nebraska Business Owners Take Right After Selling a Business?
Selling a business turns hard-to-reach equity into cash, securities, and a seller's note, and that changes what your estate plan needs to do. This post walks Nebraska owners through six areas to review after closing: the county inheritance tax, where the proceeds live if you are married, lifetime gifts and Nebraska's three-year rule, titling and beneficiary designations, powers of attorney, and who manages the money if you cannot. It includes a checklist of what to gather and questions to ask your lawyer.
Can You Keep Your Estate's Value Out of Nebraska's Public Court Records?
A will does not keep your finances private in Nebraska. Once a probate case is opened, your personal representative has to file an inventory of everything you owned, with values, in a public court file. Even a funded trust may still need a county court inheritance tax determination. This article walks through where a Nebraska estate becomes public, what a revocable trust, transfer-on-death deed, and the two $100,000 affidavit procedures can and cannot protect, and what to gather before you meet with an estate planning attorney.
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