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Families Dealing with Addiction: A Roadmap to Stability and Support

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Dealing with addiction within a family can have a profound impact on various aspects of life, including finances. It is crucial for families to not only provide support and care for their loved ones struggling with addiction but also to navigate .

Divorce + Emotions + Money Innocence

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Financial assets can refer to many different types of accounts, investments, cash, cars, collectibles, real estate, and much more.  During a divorce, the individuals involved will often only discuss splitting everything 50-50.  .

Spending in Retirement

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When it comes to retirement and finances, there is no shortage of advice on why you should save or how you should save. You see the commercials on TV showing one tiny domino gradually becoming a massive tower, or friends and family members are .

Why is it so hard to buy a new washer/dryer?

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Granted, I lean towards being cheap when I am considering new, large purchases and I tend to own “things” for a long time. As long as it works, why replace!  Plus, I am a financial planner and I would rather save money then spend my .

Divorce + Financial Planning

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Authored by Lauren Mullee, Partner with Buncher Family Law. Reprinted with her permission. Lauren Mullee, partner with Buncher Family Law, recently met up with Keythe Ward-Aguilar Certified Financial Planner and founder of ProCore Advisors, in .

5 Reasons Why Renting May Be Right For You

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Somewhere along the way the “American Dream” was to own a home. But, should it be? It has been somewhat of an ideology for generations that owning your home means that you have achieved a certain milestone in life. That status symbol of owning a .

Paper Overload

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Is your garage or home filing system overflowing with bank statements and paid bills from ten years ago?  Are you unsure about what documents need to be retained and what can be tossed? Speaking of tossing, what documents can be tossed in .

Investing in Self-Driving Taxis

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For decades people have obsessed over the self-driving car, which was once reserved as only science fiction on the big screen, has now come to be reality. There are already several autonomous vehicles driving on the roads today by the firms .

9 Ways You Can Prepare Your Finances for 2019

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The holidays and vacations are over, the kids are back to school and we are all set to start our New Year resolutions.  If building wealth or maintaining financial security is on your list of resolutions, here are nine questions you can ask .

What I’m Grateful For

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By David Hicok, ChFC These monthly musings are usually reserved for financial topics; thoughts on the markets, how changes to the tax rates might affect us, things like that.  Today I want to talk about Gratitude.  Not just what I am .