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I Just Deed My House To The Kids Right? Why this trick might increase your heirs' taxes.

In this video, David M. Frees III, Esquire explores why giving your house to a child, grandchild or otehr heir can actually raise the taxes they wiill pay and the factors that you need to consider before engaging in this easy but complicated technique.

Video Categories:

• The System For Protecting Your Assets for Your Self and Your Heirs
• Asset Protection
• Estate and Inheritance Tax Planning
• Protecting Heirs from Divorce and Litigation
• Wills and Trusts
• Family Communications and Dynamics
• General

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The System For Protecting Your Assets for Your Self and Your Heirs:

• Using An Asset Protection Trust - Control vs. Ownership
  Description: In this brief video, Pennsylvania attorney David M. Frees III reviews the hows and whys of asset protection or beneficiary controlled trusts for your children and grandchildren. Want to protect the legacy you leave to others from divorce and lawsuits?
• Pennsylvania Lawyer Answers Your Questions about How Estate Planning Works
  Description: In this video David M Frees III discusses his process of Enhanced Pennsylvania Estate Planning. Have you ever wondered what was going to happen and how the process works? Wonder about costs? These questions are answered clearly in these three videos.
• Pennsylvania Estate Planning - Your Questions Answered
  Description: This is the final video that explains the process and awsers the estate planning and asset protection questions that many people have before they visit a great will lawyer but just don't know who to ask. Your questions about the fees, how long it takes, and how it works. No fees until you understand everything.

Asset Protection:

• It's Hard To Protect Assets When You Don't Know What Is Happening
  Description: In this video, the credit crisis is quickly explained. Knowing what is happening is key to building an effective asset protection and estate plan.
• Understanding The Credit Crisis and How You Can Plan For Asset Protection
  Description: More explanation of the credit crisis that you need to create and enact successful asset protection planning

Estate and Inheritance Tax Planning:

• Protecting Your Heirs From Divorce and LAwsuits
  Description: In this video Pennsylvania trust attorney David M. Frees describes how you can use the beneficiary controlled trust to protect your heirs from divorce and from lawsuits that could take way the inheritance that you left them.
• Gifting To Children and Grandchildren - How Much before Tax Is Due?
  Description: Brief video discussing annual gifting. How much can you gift before a tax return is due? Gift taxes for Pennsylvania residents.
• Who knew Woopie Goldberg opposed the death tax?
  Description: Whoopie Goldberg on the Federal Estate Tax. You might be surprised by her position.
• How A bad Economy Offers A Rare Estate Planning Opportunity
  Description: Estate planning and Pennsylvania Inheritance and Federal Estate tax savings even in bad economic times. How a bad stock and real estate market offers a unique opportunity to move wealth and assets to the next generation.

Protecting Heirs from Divorce and Litigation:

• Protecting Your Heirs and The Legacy You Leave
  Description: This brief video gets you thinking in a new way about how to protect your heirs and their inheritance. Worried about a child or grandchild getting a divorce and losing the inheritance? Concerned about protecting your heirs from litigation, lawsuits, and creditor claims. Start thinking strategically in a new and effective way. A prominent will attorney describes the basics of asset protection for your heirs.
• Protecting Children and Grandchildren from Divorce
  Description: This video briefly explains how parents and grandparents can protect their heirs from divorce.

Wills and Trusts:

• Preventing A Will Challenge Through Estate Planning
  Description: Attorney David M Frees III reviews the tools that you should use to prevent a successful challenge to your will or estate plan including the interrorum clause that disinherits a challenger.
• How and when to use a revocable trust
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  Description: David M Frees III reviews and expands on tactics to prevent challenges to your will.
• Your Attorney needs to document, and understand your intentions.
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• Making an effective estate plan
  Description: David M Frees III talks about the importance of following state law to prevent challenges to your will.
• Wills and What if You Don't Have One
  Description: Why wills are needed but re often out of date. Pennsylvania is a state that has a simple probate system. This video explains how simple wills work and why everyone needs at least a simple will.
• The GRAT and Walton GRAT in Your Estate Plan
  Description: In this video Pennsylvania will and trust lawyer David M Frees III explains the basics of the GRAT or Grantor Retained Annuity Trust for Pennsylvania residents. This technique is considered by many lawyers to one of the best techniques to move assets to the next generation without incurring gift taxes.

Family Communications and Dynamics:

• David Frees on PBS - Family Communications Skills Part 1
  Description: This is a video of David M Frees appearing on PBS to discuss his books: The Language of Parenting: Building Great Family Relationships At All Ages and Einstein's Business which he co-authored with Donald Trump, Stephen Covey, Tom Peters and many others.
• Family Communications With Attorney Dave Frees
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General:

• Asset Protection Covers A Wide Range Of Strategies. Contact Attorney David Frees In Pennsylvania For Help.
  Description: For Pennsylvania residents, it can take years to accumulate assets and increase the value of your business and investments. Unfortunately, without an asset protection plan, you could lose everything or a significant portion of what you have worked so hard to achieve both for yourself and your family. Contact David M. Frees, III, Attorney at Law, at (610) 933-8069 for expert legal assistance.
• If You Are An Executor Or Trustee Of A Will, Attorney David Frees' Website Offers You All The Information You Need
  Description: David Frees is a graduate of Dickinson College and The University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is an author, speaker and a Pennsylvania will, trust, estate, and probate lawyer with over twenty three years of experience in the areas of estate and trust planning and estate administration. David represents many affluent clients and families in Pennsylvania as well as banks, trust companies, and families and individuals. Visit our website at www.paestateplanners.com or call us at 610-933-8069.
• Will and Trust Lawyer In Pennsylvania Talks About How Often You Need To Update Your Will
  Description: Contact David Frees at whose practice focuses on estate planning wills, trusts, and asset protection (610) 933-8069 for advice regarding your wealth, estate or assset protection planning. He is a trust and will lawyer who represents thousands of clients in Philadelphia, Chester County, Montgomery County, Delaware County and Lancaster County.
• Asset Protection Lawyer Offers Free Book On Pennsylvania Insurance Law
  Description: David M. Frees, III, is an experienced Pennsylvania will and trust attorney. His practice focuses on estate planning, trusts and estate administration with an emphasis on assset protection trusts and the process of passing on a family's values, and knowledge about finances, investment, business, education, and other topics of importance to your family. His practice also focuses on the preparation of estate plans and asset protection planning that often use wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and medical powers and directives. Contact him at 610-933-8069.
• Pennsylvania Attorney Offers The Tools And Information You Need To Plan Your Estate Through His Report On Enhanced Estate Planning
  Description: If you want to: Protect Your Children and Grandchildren from Divorce or Lawsuits? Minimize Fees Costs and Taxes? Make Sure That Your Wished Get Carried Out Without Friction? Protect A Spouse and Heirs from remarriage or other risks of loss? Then make sure that you order this report. Contact us at 610-933-8069.
• Estate Planning Lawyer Offers Book On The Ten Most Common Mistakes Executors Make In Pennsylvania
  Description: Have you been named as the executor of an estate? Before you act, do you know the ten most common mistakes Pennsylvania executors make and how to avoid them? do you know that you can be held personally laible for certain mistakes? Are you redoing your will? Thinking about who to name as your executor? This report is a must. Contact us at 610-933-8069 to get your copy.
• Asset Protection Lawyer In Pennsylvania Says To Protect Your Assets You Need To Have Multiple Layers Of Protection
  Description: Sophisticated asset protection is a vital component of estate planning and may include setting up trusts, creating partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies and implementing other successful strategies. There are many tactics available when it comes to protecting your assets and if done correctly these methods can also help minimize your tax liability and that of your heirs. Contact us at 610-933-8069 for help.
• Attorney Offers Book On What You Don't Know About Pennsylvania Insurance and How It Can Hurt Your
  Description: David M. Frees III is not just your lawyer. He is a speaker, author, and according to Elite books, one of the fifty most influential thinkers about business today. David has been traveling the globe for business and personal pleasure alone, with his wife, and with his family since he was very young. Now David brings you ideas and information to help to make your travel, your health, your business and personal life even better. Contact us at 610-933-8069.
• Pennsylvania Lawyers Will Give You Solutions That Are Focused On Achieving What You Want When Planning Your Estate
  Description: Through the knowledge that Mr. Frees provides, clients are able to implement planning strategies from one generation to the next. Mr. Frees takes pride in his strong and lasting relationships with his clients and has worked with some families for three generations. Contact Mr. Frees' assitants at (610) 933-8069 to see if you qualify for a free consultation.
• Estate Planning Attorney Tells You What The Most Important Document When Planning Your Will Is In Pennsylvania
  Description: David M. Frees, III, an experienced Pennsylvania asset protection lawyer, works with individuals who are looking for sophisticated asset protection in Chester County and Montgomery County and in suburban Philadelphia. He limits his practice to Pennsylvania asset protection, estate planning, estate administration, representing executors, tax planning, wills and trusts. Contact Mr. Frees today at (610) 933-8069 for legal advice regarding protecting your assets.
• Attorney In Pennsylvania Discusses How To Protect Your Heirs From Losing Their Inheritance In A Divorce
  Description: For most estate owners, protecting their children and grandchildren from possible divorce litigation and creditor’s claims is a top priority. They do not want to leave their loved ones vulnerable to a claim to the assets they inherit. This goal can be accomplished through estate planning. Contact us at 610-933-8069 for help.
• Attorney In Pennsylvania Talks About Why It's Important For You To Do A Will
  Description: Through the knowledge that Mr. Frees provides, clients are able to implement planning strategies from one generation to the next. Mr. Frees takes pride in his strong and lasting relationships with his clients and has worked with some families for three generations. Contact Mr. Frees' assitants at (610) 933-8069 to see if you qualify for a free consultation.
• Pennsylvania Will And Trust Attorney Discusses How The Probate Process Works
  Description: David Frees is a partner of Turner, Burke & Frees, P.C. and Chairman of the Wealth Preservation Section of the law firm. With over 23 years of experience, he has been able to help thousands of individuals with estate planning, probate, trusts and estate administration. Contact us at 610-933-8069.
• If You Are An Executor Of A Will, Pennsylvania Lawyers Unruh, Turner, Burke and Frees Can Help You Understand Everything You Need To Do
  Description: If you have been appointed as an executor or trustee you are now entrusted with a significant responsibility. As the executor or trustee of an estate or trust, there are certain tasks that must be accomplished to ensure that the assets are both managed and distributed properly and according to the law. If you fail to follow these rules, you may be held personally liable to the beneficiaries. Contact us at 610-933-8069 for help.
• Pennsylvania Attorney Promises You Will Know Exactly What You Will Be Charged In Advance In Planning Your Will Or Trust
  Description: Estate planning for families, executives, and business owners. A proven and effective system for preserving family wealth, assets, and your family values and business, investing and other knowledge that might be lost. This system also avoids family disputes and focuses on the traditional goals of wealth preservation and tax savings as well as asset protection and protecting heirs from law suits and divorce. Contact us at 610-933-8069.
• Estates and Trusts Attorney Can Help You Understand What Makes Up Your Estate In Pennsylvania
  Description: Contact David Frees at whose practice focuses on estate planning wills, trusts, and asset protection (610) 933-8069 for advice regarding your wealth, estate or assset protection planning. He is a trust and will lawyer who represents thousands of clients.
• Asset Protection Lawyer In Pennsylvania Discusses The Differences Between Wills And Trusts
  Description: A legal will is designed to let your intentions be known and usually includes the entire estate. To avoid potential disputes among beneficiaries, a will should be carefully drafted by a Pennsylvania wills attorney. A trust is also an essential estate planning tool that will detail how the estate will be distributed. Through the use of a trust, you have the ability to decide which beneficiaries are to receive certain assets and how these assets will be given. Contact us at 610-933-8069 for help.
• Pennsylvania Estate Planning Lawyer Bills On A Flat Fee Basis So There Are No Surprises
  Description: Through the knowledge that Mr. Frees provides, clients are able to implement planning strategies from one generation to the next. Mr. Frees takes pride in his strong and lasting relationships with his clients and has worked with some families for three generations. Contact Mr. Frees' assitants at (610) 933-8069 to see if you qualify for a free consultation.
• Estate Planning Lawyer In Pennsylvania Can Help You With Your Will or Trust
  Description: Whether you need a simple will or more complicated planning techniques such as an Irrevocable Trust, or a GRAT, what you probably want more than anything else is for someone to guide you through the process in a clear, easy, and effective way. That is what we do. And we also help you to protect assets, and to minimize or avoid estate and inheritance taxes. Contact us at 610-933-8069.
• End Of Year Estate Planning Mistakes To Avoid and What You Should Do Now
  Description: Gifting, estate planning, and asset protection check list for the end of the year. Gifitng mistakes to avoid and what to do before 2010.
• The Ten Most Common Mistakes Executors Make & How To Avoid Them
  Description: Are you an executor of an estate in Pennsylvania or have you been told that you might be? Do you want to avoid personal liability? The do not act until you see this video and get the free book: The Ten Most Common Mistakes Executors Make and How To Avoid Them by David M. Frees III, Esquire.
• Executor or Trustee in Pennsylvania? Don't Do Anything Until You See This Video on You Liability Exposure
  Description: Can you be held liable for your actions as an executor and/or trustee in Pennsylvania? Yes. It can be a big job. Make sure to limit your exposure and do it well.
• DIY Wills and Estate Planning - Do They Work? Why Short Term Savings Might Be Costly
  Description: In this video will, estate, and asset protection lawyer David M. Frees looks into the pros and cons (including cost) of Do It Yourself wills and estate plans such as legal Zoom. Does DIY estate planning work? And why do many lawyers think that the Wall Street Journal got this one all wrong?
• David M Frees Asset Protection Lawyer by Chip Cummings
  Description: Chip Cummings of Northhwind Financial Company explains why he trusts David Frees as an Asset Protection Attorney
• Preventing Challenges To Your Will - The Interrorum Clause
  Description: In this brief video, David M. Frees III reviews a simple but higly effective clause that you should consider for your will. This clause can prevent or deter challenges to your will or estate plan.
• Estate Planning Is More Than Just Your Will - Learn How To Enhance Your Business and Communications Skills
  Description: This appearance by David focuses on communications skills for businesses ( and marketing for family businesses and executives) but the other guests cover investing and other estate planning information

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