Staying on top of your financial affairs can help you manage life's ups and downs - 2004-01-11
Karel Anne Tieszen knows all too well that life takes unexpected twists and turns. Within a two-year span during the late 1990s, Tieszen's parents died, leaving her a significant sum of money.
"It was scary," says Tieszen, a 42-year-old Dallas mother of two. The flurry of events prompted Tieszen to adjust her financial affairs, from upping her life insurance and shaving her mortgage payment to nailing down her college-savings and estate plans.
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