We're sharing how coordinated planning helped one of our O'Keefe Stevens Advisory clients put a roughly $600,000 payout to work and catch a tax reporting error worth about $50,000.
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Executor Duties: What to Do When You’re Named to Settle an Estate Being named executor sounds like an honor, right […]
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Trust Funding: The Estate Step Rochester Families Often Miss Setting up a trust feels like the finish line. It isn’t. […]
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Capital Gains on Inherited Property and the Step-Up in Basis Selling an inherited home or investment account can feel like […]
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Beneficiary Designations: Why Rochester Families Review Them You spent decades building your savings. But your beneficiary designations, not your will, […]
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New York's estate tax cliff can tax an entire estate once it crosses the exemption by more than 5%. Here's how one Rochester couple, working with their O'Keefe Stevens advisor and estate attorney, rebalanced their plan with revocable trusts, a credit shelter trust, and an early gifting strategy.
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Long-Term Care Planning in Rochester, NY: How to Start Long-term care planning is the piece of retirement almost nobody wants […]
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Estate Planning in Rochester, NY: Protecting What You’ve Built You spent a lifetime building something: a home in Monroe County, […]
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The Second Chapter of the American Dream Written by: Grace Stolberg One of the unexpected privileges of being a financial […]
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Get Your Affairs in Order The Gift of Clarity for the People You Love. Written by: Justin Stevens There is […]

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