Wealth Management Planning Services is a collection of business units that specialize in various areas of financial planning, including retirement planning, education funding, estate planning, insurance services and charitable planning. Estate Planning & Trusts
The Goals of Estate Planning
While an estate plan can't pass on your memories and experiences, it can help you pass on your assets in a
way that reflects your values, dreams and the full life you've lived. Some common goals of estate planning include:
Helping protect your assets against the high costs of long-term care
Managing your financial and legal affairs if you become disabled
Expressing your wishes with regards to medical care, and designating an individual to make medical decisions for you when you cannot
Providing for your family if you become disabled or die
Minimizing delays and frustrations of estate settlement
Helping your family avoid unnecessary estate tax liability
Benefiting a charity
Controlling the distribution of your assets
Estate Planning With Life & Long-Term Care Insurance
You may already be aware of the importance of life insurance when you're planning how to take care of your family financially when you're gone. What happens if you become ill or disabled and need long-term health care? These expenses can rapidly deplete your retirement savings and all your other assets as well. A solid estate plan takes these possibilities into consideration. Learn more about life insurance and the importance of long-term care insurance. Strategies for Additional Estate Planning Goals
You should also consider strategies for helping reduce estate taxes and transferring wealth to your heirs. In addition, using trusts in your estate plan may help you meet many of the estate planning goals mentioned above. Estate taxes
Gifting and wealth transfer
Trusts
How We Can Help With Estate Planning
Your financial advisor can help you with the estate investment planning process and work closely with you and your tax and legal advisors to implement the estate planning strategies that make sense for your particular situation.