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Wealth Transfer Checklist

Wealth Transfer Estate Plan

To help your loved ones avoid this troubling statistic, educate, and update your extended family about wealth transfer goals. Finally, it alerts them to the plan you created to achieve these goals.

Disinherit Your Children?

Estranged Child

Regardless of why a parent would disinherit a child, they should not disinherit as a tool to manipulate. Disinherited children may feel angry. This could lead to turmoil within the family.

Inventory: Treasure Map Your Estate

Treasure Chest Assets

Distressed children often call estate planning attorneys. Their deceased parents wrote a will or a trust without itemizing an inventory. So the kids have no idea which accounts, insurance policies, or items of real and personal property their parent owned.

The Importance of a Successor Trustee

Successor Trustee Estate Plan

Healthcare documents (such as a Medical POA, Advanced Directive or Living Will, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization form) primarily focus on medical matters. However, they may also impact the financial matters handled by the successor trustee.

The Importance of a Successor Trustee

Successor Trustee

Unlike other estate planning options, an RLT grants the ability to maintain control and enjoy accounts and property during someone’s lifetime. What’s more, it maintains privacy relative to how to manage accounts and property.