Your US Estate Plan and Spain: What Does Not Travel
Victor Gersten, EA, CFP®, MS, MPAS™ Most Americans with real assets have an estate plan. Usually it is a revocable living trust, a pour-over will, and a set of beneficiary designations. In California it works well. Very little of that structure survives the move to...
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