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Manya Deva Natan
Manya Deva Natan is a California Bar Certified attorney with the law firm of SSS Legal & Consultancy Services located in Calabasas, CA. Her practice focuses on International Estates, Trusts and Estates, Asset Protection, Trust Administration, and more. Manya received her law degree from Stanford University, as well as a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University. She has completed extensive course-work and training in the areas of mental, physical, and emotional health, including being a published author. She is the founder of two publishing-based companies related to health and wellness and has particular interest in the legal and financial components of health and their importance in integrated health. She has appeared multiple times on Good Morning America and is regularly contacted by national media outlets for commentary.
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Four More Common Estate Planning Mistakes

Here are four more common mistakes in estate planning. If your plan is in place and current, this will serve ...

The Advisory Team Approach to Estate Planning

Estate planning is not simply the documents prepared by an attorney, nor is it the insurance and financial plan recommended ...

Estate Planning for Women

While estate planning is important for everyone, women especially need to understand estate planning and have a plan of their ...

Life Insurance: How Much and What Kind?

Life insurance can be an affordable way to provide for our children, spouse, a sibling, aging parents and others if ...

Naming a Guardian for Your Minor Child(ren)

Parents with minor children need to name someone to raise them (a guardian) in the event both parents should die ...

Planning For Incapacity and Long-Term Care

With people living longer due to advances in medicine and changes in lifestyle, odds are that most of us will ...

Facebook Founders Use Estate Planning Technique for $200 Million Tax-Free Transfer

Sometimes the planning of the rich and famous helps us better understand what mere mortals can accomplish through proper planning ...

Blended Families Underscore the Need for Estate Planning

Anyone with children or modest assets should seriously consider some minimal estate planning, but the increasing number of blended families ...

Advance Directives/Living Wills are a Critical Component of Estate Planning

March 31, 2012 marked the seventh anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old who succumbed after her feeding ...

Why Middle Class Kids May Actually Have An Edge Over Rich Kids

We usually look at wealth as something that can help a child get ahead, perhaps by paying for tutors and ...

How to Make a Family Meeting a Successful Part of the Estate Planning Process

You've made the hard decisions, your documents are signed, your trust is funded, a business succession plan is in place ...

Protecting Against Financial Fraud in Charitable Giving

Americans are very generous when it comes to charitable giving. In addition, lower earners give more proportionately than higher earners ...

Are You Wasting Money? Part Three: Taxes, Insurance, Not Bidding and/or Negotiating

So far in this series on wasting money, we have looked at how people may overpay for housing, interest, transportation, ...

Are You Wasting Money? Part Two: Food, Clothing and Entertainment

In Part One of this series on wasting money, we looked at housing, interest and transportation--areas in which you or ...

Are You Wasting Money? Part One: Housing, Interest, and Transportation

Most of us are guilty of wasting money in one way or another. Often we are so busy that we ...

Recovering Emotionally from Past Financial Errors

Most of us will admit to having made some financial mistakes we regret--running up credit card debt, impulse buying, or ...

How to Stop Worrying About Running Out of Money in Retirement

Many retirees today worry about having enough money for their retirement. Of special concern is if there will be enough ...

Understanding Losses: Property

Property insurance provides protection against most risks to property, such as fire, theft and some weather damage. However, if property ...

Wealth Protection: Avoiding Losses

You can't create wealth until you preserve it first. Each dollar lost unnecessarily isn't just a single dollar lost, but ...

Understanding Losses: Compounding Interest

Most investors are familiar with the magic of compounding interest but they often fail to realize that when the portfolio ...

If You Die Without a Will, Does Your Spouse Inherit Your Entire Estate?

If you are married and you die without a Last Will and Testament, you may mistakenly believe that your spouse ...

Who’s Going to Get It: Do You Really Know the Beneficiaries of Your Dynasty Trust?

Today many estate plans contain irrevocable dynasty trusts that will continue for the benefit of a spouse's lifetime and then ...

Five Things You Need to Know About the Recently Enacted ABLE Act

On December 19, 2014, President Obama signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE Act) into law. The ABLE ...

How to Choose the Right Agent for Your Incapacity Plan

A common misconception is that estate planning equates to death planning. But planning for what happens after you die is ...

Is a Payable on Death Account Right for You and Your Family?

Payable on death accounts, or "POD accounts" for short, have become popular for avoiding probate in the last decade or ...

Caution: Writing Your Own Deed to Avoid Probate Can Lead to Unintended Consequences

One common way to avoid probate of real estate after the owner dies is to hold the title to the ...