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Ensuring the Expected After the Unexpected: Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorneys
Ensuring the Expected After the Unexpected: Living Wills and Durable Power of Attorneys
Every morning we wake up and expect the usual: our usual morning beverage, weather that we like or not, perhaps a morning commute. What we don’t exp...
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The Laird Norton Trust Companies: Our Role As Trustee
The Laird Norton Trust Companies: Our Role As Trustee
Since 1967, LNW has served as trustee for trusts established by our clients, often working with multiple generations within families. When one of the...
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How to Thoughtfully Manage Your Equity Compensation
How to Thoughtfully Manage Your Equity Compensation
Equity compensation brings with it potential benefits and pitfalls, both financial and emotional. To make the most of it, it’s important to understa...
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Talking Money with Young Adults
Talking Money with Young Adults
Many parents are concerned about their children building solid relationships with money but are unsure how to approach the topic with their kids. The...
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Tax-Loss Harvesting in Context
Tax-Loss Harvesting in Context
As trying as market volatility can be, it can provide opportunities for us to enhance a portfolio’s after-tax returns. How? One strategy we apply, e...
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Retired and Resilient: Strategies for the 2020s
Retired and Resilient: Strategies for the 2020s
Retirement is no longer that short period after a lifetime of work. It is a major life stage that can last for many decades, as more people are able t...
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Smart Ways to Give to Family and Charity
Smart Ways to Give to Family and Charity
Over the past 10 or 20 years, all sorts of assets have increased greatly in value. If you are now considering transferring some of those gains to the...
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Put Your Estate In Good Hands
Put Your Estate In Good Hands
The success of any estate plan depends GREATLY on the people you choose to carry out your wishes after you are gone, or if you become incapacitated. T...
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Money Messages for Ages 3 to 25
Money Messages for Ages 3 to 25
You don’t know if your children or grandchildren will grow up to be ballerinas or bankers, stay-at-home dads or globetrotters. But you can convey th...