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Qatar Now Requires Mandatory Local Health Insurance For Entry (Effective February 1, 2023)

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Effective today, February 1st 2023, all foreign arrivals seeking to enter Qatar must have valid health insurance that covers treatments in the country in case of illness.

The requirement includes travelers who enter Qatar either with a visa, visa on arrival, or those nationals entering the country under the visa (cost) waiver scheme.

It’s important to note that this will also affect guests who have booked a brief stopover while traveling via Doha’s Hamad International Airport with Qatar airways.

The official Visit Qatar website says that effective today (Feb 1), all visitors must hold a recognized insurance plan that can be purchased in advance or on arrival at a cost of 50 Qatari Riyals [US$14].

These are the accepted insurance providers:

The only accepted (listed) international insurance companies appear to be from the gulf region as well. Visitors from overseas apparently won’t have their insurance policies accepted.

Doha News

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How Can You Protect Your Children?

Many of our estate planning clients have children and want to protect their children.

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While concerns vary, protecting children is a huge part of estate planning.

When parents have minor children, estate planning is essential. It allows parents to pick guardians for their children. This will ensure that they have peace of mind knowing who will care for their minor children.

This will also prevent court fights over guardianship.

Parents with minor children can also set aside money in trust to help care for their children.

Estate planning also prevents children from getting large sums of money at age 18.

We always say the quickest way to ruin a good kid is to leave them with a big sum

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What Happens When You Don’t Fund Your Trust?

After you work with your estate planning attorney to draft a carefully tailored estate plan, it is usually your responsibility to “fund” the trust.

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What does funding the trust mean?

Funding the trust is simply transferring assets into your trust.

If you have a trust, you will want to put your assets into the trust, by retitling bank accounts, re-designating beneficiaries of life insurance, etc. We walk our clients through the process, but we usually recommend that the clients make the transfers themselves.

If clients fail to make the transfers or fail to title them correctly, the assets will not be a part of the trust.

This means that the assets outside of the trust will still need to go

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