About the Author
Matthew Veland is a financial planner at Prudential in the Washington, DC area, where he's spent six and a half years building a practice focused on the Asian American community, with a particular concentration of physicians and small business owners. Matthew's mother immigrated from the Philippines in the late 1980s, and that background shapes how he approaches estate planning with clients who may be navigating unfamiliar territory. Many of his clients grew up with very different rules around inheritance than the ones that apply in the U.S.: concepts like forced heirship, which limits a parent's ability to disinherit a child, are common across parts of Asia but don't work the same way here, and Matthew regularly walks families through that gap.
