Estate Planning

Ensuring Your Legacy Is Defined and Maintained

Our team will collaborate with you and your legal counsel to ensure that you establish and execute an estate plan that is specifically tailored to meet your goals. Your estate plan works best when it is kept up to date with your evolving personal and financial circumstances. We will help ensure that any requisite changes to your plan are carefully considered and properly implemented.

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Guidance on Estate Planning Includes:

  • Analyzing your assets to help you understand how your estate and financial plan currently function
  • Helping you identify structures to protect your assets and beneficiaries
  • Providing insight on estate and gift tax mitigation strategies
  • Identifying federal or state specific transfer regulations that may impact you
  • Reviewing your plan with you to ensure that it is up to date
  • Partnering with you to design a plan that is optimized for you and your loved ones

Estate planning can be an uncomfortable subject that many people prefer not to discuss because it involves confronting difficult scenarios. However, establishing an estate plan and keeping it updated is important in order to avoid unintended consequences for your family and other beneficiaries.

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REVOCABLE ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS
REVOCABLE TRUST
  • Primary document in a Trust-based estate plan
  • Contains the dispositive provisions of your plan (i.e., who gets what)

WILL
  • Primary document in a Will-based plan
  • In a Trust-based plan, the Will functions in coordination with your trust to manage assets that are not in your trust at the time of your death

POWER OF ATTORNEY
  • Allows you to appoint an individual to act on your behalf for financial matters if you become incapacitated

HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE
  • Allows you to appoint an individual to act on your behalf for medical matters if you become incapacitated

Potential Gifting Strategies
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Overview of Strategies Donor Advised Fund Non-Grantor Trust Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT) Grantor-Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) Charitable Remainder Trust
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