Estate planning
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Description: This site provides information on how to build and/or repair your credit history.
Description: This site provides information on credit reports.
Credit: Is It a Tool or a trap? 
Description: Used wisely, credit can be a valuable tool. By helping you accumulate assets, it can contribute to your financial
future. Used poorly or abused, credit can be a trap. This article describes this in more detail.
Estate Planning Considerations for Ohio Families
Description: This website focuses on issues associated with estate creation and transfer, to provide the basis of understanding estate planning terms, and to assist in outlining personal objectives.
Financial Security in Later Life
Author: Kahler, James (4 more by this author)
Description: Financial security is the ability to meet future needs while keeping pace with day-to-day obligations. Preparing for retirement and potential long-term care costs takes planning, saving, and debt control. This Cooperative Extension initiative seeks to help people improve personal finance behaviors leading to financial security in later life, enhance the capacity of local educators and their partners to deliver effective programs, and increase economic vitality and quality of life for families and communities. The site has two parts, one for consumers looking for information and educational programs, and second for community educators implementing this initiative.
Description: This site, from the Office of Citizen Services and Communications, U.S. General Services Administration, offers a wide array of resources on issues facing the elderly. Includes information on consumer protection, volunteerism, health, laws, retirement, taxes, travel and leisure.
Description: This site provides information on how to get out of debt.
Helping Older Family Members Handle Finances
Description: This article provides information and tips on how to help older family members with their finances.
Home Equity Conversions: Reverse Mortgages
Author: Gorman, Patricia; Parrott, Kathleen
Description: Many senior adults are finding it hard to live on the fixed incomes of their retirement and are looking for ways to supplement their monthly incomes. For some, the largest asset that they own is their home, but they do not want to sell their home and move. For these individuals, there is an option called Home Equity Conversion (HEC).
Description: This site provides information on debt and how to deal with debt issues.
Description: This site provides information on understanding and determining your credit score.
Where to Go for Credit and Debt Help
Description: This site provides information on where one can go to get help with credit and debt issues.
Your Financial Action Plan for Retirement
Description: This site provides a variety of information that should be known when attempting to plan your retirement.
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Description: This 11-unit home study course was developed by the Cooperative Extension system for beginning investors with small dollar amounts to invest at any one time. We assumed that many readers will be investing for the first time or selecting investment products, such as a stock index fund or unit investment trust, that they have not purchased previously.
Description: MyMoney.gov is the U.S. government's website dedicated to teaching all Americans the basics about financial education. Whether you are planning to buy a home, balancing your checkbook, or investing in your 401k, the resources on MyMoney.gov can help you do it better. Throughout the site, you will find important information from 20 federal agencies government wide.
Description: Forms for a family to record the location of important papers, financial account numbers and locations, and other key family financial data.
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Communication Barriers to Family Farm Succession Planning
Description: Many farm families fail to take succession planning actions even when information is available on the tax, business organization, and investment aspects of this process. In semi-structured interviews conducted with multi-generational members of nine small farm families in Pennsylvania, most respondents attributed a high level of importance to succession planning, but conceded that they had not done enough planning. Passive communication styles, unresolved issues, and uncertainty in their lives were inhibiting factors. Rather than rely on a "wait and see" approach, it helps to be inclusive of younger generations in key discussions and decisions about the future of the farm.
Communication Barriers to Family Farm Succession Planning
Description: Many farm families fail to take succession planning actions even when information is available on the tax, business organization, and investment aspects of this process. In semi-structured interviews conducted with multi-generational members of nine small farm families in Pennsylvania, most respondents attributed a high level of importance to succession planning, but conceded that they had not done enough planning. Passive communication styles, unresolved issues, and uncertainty in their lives were inhibiting factors. Rather than rely on a "wait and see" approach, it helps to be inclusive of younger generations in key discussions and decisions about the future of the farm.