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By Michael Pancheri Today's baby boomers want more out of their estate planning than just passing along an inheritance to their children. They also want to pass along their values - and they're using incentive trusts to do just that. Incentive trusts do more than protect a child's inheritance until the child is old enough - and mature enough - to handle the money. They actually go one step further - they use the inheritance as sort of a reward for doing the right thing. For example, a traditional trust would hold an inheritance until a child was, say age 25. At that time, it was believed that the child would have finished school and started on a career. At the very least, the inheritance wouldn't serve as a disincentive to finishing school or getting a good job. At age 25, or there abouts, the trust would end and the inheritance would be given outright to the child. With an incentive trust, the inheritance is not only held in trust for much longer period of time, it also comes with certain strings attached. For example, the trust may provide for a gift to the child of $50,000 or so upon graduation from college. It may also provide for a gift of $25,000 or so as a wedding gift. The incentives can be as imaginative as the furtile minds of the parents - and often are. That's one of the problems, too! Critics say that incentive trusts can place unreasonable or even unacceptable expectations on the beneficiaries. Professionals who advise parents about incentive trusts need to be more than justs lawyers skilled in the laws of trusts, estates, and taxation. They also need to be skilled in the realm of social behavior so that the consequences of certain incentives are well thought out. What would happen, for example, if a trust provided a dollar-for-dollar match of every dollar earned by a beneficiary where one beneficiary was a higly-successful business person and the other was a struggling artist. In that case, the incentive might be counter-productive. Still, incentive trusts are growing in popularity and you should be aware of the possibilities they provide. For a good general explanation of incentive trusts, take a look at an article entitled "Planning: Handing down values as well as wealth" by Catherine M. Allchin, The New York Times. The article was also published in the International Harold Tribune. Attorney Michael Pancheri is a practicing attorney and the founder and CEO of the Living Trust Network. You may contact him by email at info@livingtrustnetwork.com. You may also contact him at the Living Trust Network's web site. Its URL is http://www.livingtrustnetwork.com. Copyright 2005. The Living Trust Network, LLC. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michael_Pancheri http://EzineArticles.com/?The-New-Ragencentive-Trusts&id=152595 pharmacy phentermine cod get phentermine without a prescription cheap phentermine no prescription phentermine online doctor consultation

By Jack Crow Many males complain that they don't understand females. Many females complain that they don't understand males. We also have the classic saying that men are from mars and women are from venus. Physically both sexes are very similar and are of the same species so what is the problem? After much reading on the subject, there seems to be a general consensus that there is a fundamental difference in the way men and women think. The bottom line is that men think with logic but women think with emotions. This is why a male gets so frustrated with a females sometimes irrational behavior. Additionally, a female rarely says directly what she wants. Instead, she will use reverse psychology by asking the male a series of questions until she gets the desired answer. If she does not get the desired answer she will take the huffs and give the male 'the cold shoulder treatment'. She thinks this will alert the male that something is wrong and he will do what she wants... with out actually telling him! Meanwhile the male is left dazed and confused as to what happened. After which an argument is usually required to get to the bottom of the problem. The whole situation could have been avoided if the female had stated directly what she wanted in the first place. When asked why they do this, most women will either answer that they don't realize they're doing this or they simply don't know why. Many an argument could be avoided if what came out of a girls mouth was the same as the thought that was processed in her brain. But alas, it is not. The classic example is a couple driving along a road. The female is hungry so she says to the male 'would you like to get something to eat?' The male replys 'no thanks I'm not hungry at the minute' and keeps driving. She then takes it thick because she didn't get the answer she was looking for. If she had said 'I'm hungry, pull in at the next shop so I can get some food' he would have done just that without question. This all stems back to the fact that a female thinks with her emotions, not logic. This is why a male cannot understand a females rational. Males cannot read between the lines. They are not psychic or clairvoyant and they need everything spelled out to them in black and white. Males often also complain that females are moody, have mood swings and show irrational or erratic behavior. This is especially apparent in times of stress, emergencies or significant events where body chemicals and emotions are highly stimulated. Because a females behavior is affected by her emotions and her emotions are affected by her body chemistry and her body chemistry is in a state of flux from one month to the next, it can only be expected that a female would exhibit erratic behavior that is a mystery to a man whose body does not go through a constant monthly cycle of change. Re-read that last paragraph guys if it went over your head. Unfortunately this behavior is genetically built into a females body. So sorry guys, you are going to have to live with it and while you can't get rid of it, you can at least be aware of it and try to understand it. So in short, guys need to try to interpret better what a girl is saying, as it may not be exactly what she means. Girls need to try better to say exactly what they mean, if they want their guy to do what they want, without playing head games with them. Weather this is actually possible (as it goes against our genetic programming) is another case entirely. Jack Crow is a freelance writer and part time webmaster. When he's not building web sites he's checking out new dating sites that appear on the net.
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