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Shane Bradley earns 2019 Client First Service Award

Midland, MI – SYM Financial Advisors is pleased to announce Shane Bradley, CFP®, MS, as the recipient of SYM’s Client First Service Award.  Each year, the Client First Service Award recognizes a single member of SYM’s team for exemplifying the core values that drive the success of the organization: serving clients uncommonly well and building relationships of trust. A Certified Financial Planner™ designee, Bradley works for SYM in the role of Financial Planner. He earned

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Do you have a HIPAA Form or Health Care Proxy for your Adult Child?

As parents, we guide, care for, and protect our children. We make informed, researched, and well-intentioned medical decisions and protect their health and well being. But on their 18th birthdays, they legally become strangers, off-limits to us from a medical and legal perspective. Without a HIPAA form or Health Care proxy, we no longer have access to their medical information. It also keeps us from guiding their care. Not being able to order refills of

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Q & A on Child Tax Liability

Once upon a time, high-income families could reduce their tax burden by shifting income to their children. Many took advantage of this loophole by putting investments in their child’s name to reap the benefits of their lower tax rate. Then, the kiddie tax was introduced in the mid-1980s, and increased the child tax liability. The new regulation taxed the passive income of children under age 17 based on the parents’ marginal tax rate, with some additional

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How to Keep Your Family Cabin in the Family

Family cabins are part of many people’s retirement dreams. If you own vacation property, consider special cabin planning when creating your estate plan.  A cabin plan is a wealth transfer strategy designed to keep the property in the family after the owner’s passing. It can eliminate many of the challenges related to shared ownership. Wealth Transfer Strategies When the goal is to preserve the property for the family, the most complete planning scenario will incorporate a

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Write a Legacy Letter for the Ones You Love

What kind of legacy will you leave behind? In 2018, SYM reached a milestone of 50 years in business and as part of the celebration we invited Susan Turnbull, the founder and principal of Personal Legacy Advisors, LLC, to speak to our guests on the topic of legacy. Legacy, in its simplest definition, is the influence you have on the lives of other people, the way you act and create relationships, and the values and

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