Upper Southampton company crowned winner at Spark Bowl competition
Bucks County Courier Times
A plastics manufacturing company based in Upper Southampton was named winner of this year s Spark Bowl, a Shark Tank -like competition held at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown last month.
Owners of five small businesses pitched their ideas to a panel of judges. The top three teams walked away with checks to support their ideas.
Undergraduate business students from DelVal worked with the finalists as business consultants, helping them prepare to make their pitches to the judges. Prizes were awarded to the student consultant teams who worked with the winning businesses.
Being asked to be an executor is an honor you might want to pass up.
Settling an estate typically involves tracking down and appraising assets, paying bills and creditors, filing final tax returns and distributing whatever s left to the heirs. At best, the process is time-consuming. At worst, it takes hundreds of hours, exposes you to lawsuits and thrusts you into the middle of family fights.
Robert Braglia of New York, a certified financial planner, was executor of an estate where the woman disowned three of her four children and left most of her money to just one of her many grandchildren. That could have caused an uproar even if the family got along, which it didn t: Two of the woman s children were fighting over the woman s ashes before she actually died.
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Being asked to be an executor is an honor you might want to pass up.
Settling an estate typically involves tracking down and appraising assets, paying bills and creditors, filing final tax returns and distributing whatever’s left to the heirs. At best, the process is time-consuming. At worst, it takes hundreds of hours, exposes you to lawsuits and thrusts you into the middle of family fights.
Robert Braglia of New York, a certified financial planner, was executor of an estate where the woman disowned three of her four children and left most of her money to just one of her many grandchildren. That could have caused an uproar even if the family got along, which it didn’t: Two of the woman’s children were fighting over the woman’s ashes before she actually died.
Should You Be the Executor of an Estate? Maybe Not
Before you agree to take on this role, know the time, work and risk that s involved
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By Liz Weston
Being asked to be an executor is an honor you might want to pass up.
Settling an estate typically involves tracking down and appraising assets, paying bills and creditors, filing final tax returns and distributing whatever’s left to the heirs. At best, the process is time-consuming. At worst, it takes hundreds of hours, exposes you to lawsuits and thrusts you into the middle of family fights.
Robert Braglia of New York, a certified financial planner, was executor of an estate where the woman disowned three of her four children and left most of her money to just one of her many grandchildren. That could have caused an uproar even if the family got along, which it didn’t: Two of the woman’s children were fighting over the woman’s ashes before she actually died.