Life insurance is designed to provide financial protection, but life happens, and your needs might shift. If you have a permanent policy, it could have built-up cash value, giving you the option to ...

Editor’s Note: The 2017 tax reform legislation reversed the IRS position in Revenue Ruling 2009-13, and instead now provides that in determining basis, no adjustment is made for mortality, expense or ...

Insurance companies charge several fees that affect the overall cost of a policy ...

Each option for receiving cash from a life insurance policy has different benefits, risks and tax implications ...

If you’re reading this post, you survived the Thanksgiving holiday – hopefully, without much family drama.[i] Then again, there may have been moments, inspired by an overload of obligatory ...

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Policy loans are a tax-advantaged way to access your cash value, but the policy could lapse if you aren’t careful ...

Life doesn’t always follow the plan you had when you first bought life insurance. Maybe your kids are grown and financially independent. Maybe your budget has tightened. Or maybe you’ve simply decided ...

Life insurance is something we all buy for the secure future of ourselves and our families. However, sometimes financial circumstances arise in life where paying the premium becomes a burden. In such ...

A May 1 court hearing will decide whether Scotia Wealth can surrender Monette Farms' key-man life insurance policies to ...