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b'In this episode of The Lange Money Hour: Where Smart Money Talks, CPA/Attorney and retirement and estate planning expert Jim Lange will discuss his flexible estate planning techniques \\u2013 focusing in particular on Lange\\u2019s Cascading Beneficiary Plan. \\n\\nWe all face uncertainty when it comes to predicting who the ideal beneficiary for any given asset will be at the time of our death. We don\\u2019t know how much money there will be because we can\\u2019t know how the market will perform. There is uncertainty about which family members will have the greatest financial need at the time of our death. Will there be an expensive illness that will mean our surviving spouse needs all of the money? Or perhaps our spouse will have plenty of money, and our children or grandchildren could use the money more. \\n\\nIf you draft estate planning documents that don\\u2019t account for changing circumstances, your heirs likely won\\u2019t get the full benefits of your assets. \\n\\nThis strategy, which has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Kiplingers involves naming primary and contingent beneficiaries to your IRA or estate plan. What makes it so effective is the concept of \\u201cdisclaiming\\u201d \\u2013 the idea that each beneficiary can disclaim \\u2013 or \\u201cpass\\u201d \\u2013 on accepting an IRA or other assets. This allows the primary beneficiary to take the assets for themselves, or to say \\u201cI don\\u2019t need it,\\u201d and pass it to the next beneficiary in line.\\n\\nThis episode will lay out how flexible estate planning cannot only help get your money into the right hands after your death, but can actually save your heirs thousands \\u2013 or even hundreds of thousands \\u2013 of dollars. And Jim will discuss how these techniques are likely to be affected by the looming \\u201cDeath of the Stretch IRA.\\u201d'