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Your Estate Could be Bankrupt Unless You Protect Against This

To be truly comprehensive, estate planning needs to be about more than passing your wealth down to your heirs. It needs to be about how to protect it while you're still alive.

To illustrate the point, let's examine the case of Sara and Jonah Williams, a hypothetical couple who worked for over 30 years to build their fledgling fast-food business into a thriving franchise with stores throughout the nation. Then they got slapped with an

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