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Teaching Children about Money How to tie their shoes and tell time are important skills parents teach their children. But don't forget the important skill of learning how to handle money. If you don't teach them, they'll be left to the experts on the schoolyard or (worse yet) Madison Avenue.   Business Buy/Sell Agreements It is important that businesses with more than one owner have a written buy/sell agreement specifying what happens when an owner withdraws from the business. A buy/sell agreement is a contract between the owners (or the owners and the business entity itself) that establishes rules and restrictions applicable to changes in ownership.   Traditional to Roth IRA Conversions Four years ago, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA) relaxed some restrictive rules preventing many taxpayers from converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, but this favorable change was not effective until 2010.