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When trying to decide between a living trust or a will the first thing you should do is identify what’s most important for you, your loved ones, and your needs. A living trust typically allows you to bypass probate court and distribute your assets exactly how you wish. On the other hand, a living trust holds your assets until a predetermined time and provides instructions for how they’ll be managed and distributed. A will is strictly concerned with what happens to your assets after you die but doesn’t house your assets in the meantime. However, unlike a will, assets in a trust can be distributed before you die. As with a will, a living trust names a beneficiary, or beneficiaries, and a trustee.
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Our estate planning platform: Connecting generation
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Without an estate plan, people who marry into a family (or even strangers) may end up with the entire family legacy.
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Anticipating Future Needs
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Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) offers financial products and services through affiliates of Wells Fargo & Company. Please consult your tax and legal advisors to determine how this information may apply to your own situation. In other words, your legacy trust can be tailored according to your wishes while avoiding estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, effectively. Here are some features to help inheritance planning support determine whether a legacy trust may be right for yo
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Comprehensive Financial Planning
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Steven collaborates with attorneys, CPAs and financial advisers to design tax-efficient solutions that preserve and protect multigenerational wealth. Steven Bowles, CLU®, is the founder of Catalyst Advisory, an independent wealth transfer and estate planning advisory firm. Heirs can benefit equally from a pool of assets without dividing and splitting everything apart, which often results in lost value. This may involve a family LLC, a trust or shared governance of family assets. Dividing assets, especially illiquid ones like real estate and businesses, often forces a sale. Estate planning typically involves splitting everything evenly among the heirs, so they can do with their inheritance as they please.
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Invest in insurance to protect family wealth
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But families who successfully preserve their wealth typically spend more time and energy on tax strategy and protecting their wealth than selecting the right investments. Investing involves risk and you may incur a profit or loss regardless of strategy selected, including diversification and asset allocation. Permanent life insurance can be a good diversification play, offering protection along with cash value and an investment component. It provides excellent liquidity so your heirs can pay taxes without selling inheritance planning support assets (very important if you own a business or a real estate portfolio). In this environment, it is essential to be strategic, calculated and prepared to protect the family assets and take full advantage of the opportunities availabl
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After you have crafted a valuable estate plan incorporating the goals mentioned above and providing for your legacy through protecting an inheritance to your family, the next step is to strengthen your legacy by bestowing upon your family the principles you value in your life. Some of these goals include saving on death taxes when parents have passed away, making it possible to avoid death taxes entirely when the children pass away and protecting a child’s inheritance from all possible creditors, including bankruptcy and divorce. In our Cartersville estate planning practice at Asset Protection & Elder Law of Georgia, we focus on protecting our clients and their assets, whatever their unique circumstances may be. Christina will inherit the estate outright (with full ownership of the property and assets) if she survives her father. Whether any planned tax result is realized by you depends on the specific facts of your own situation at the time your tax return is filed. And while it can take time to ponder the details, the results can be worth it and future generations may thank you for your efforts.
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Estate and Business Planning
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Dr. Smith wants to make sure that Christina and his grandchildren inherit the family legacy he built. Dr. Smith spends a lot of time with his grandchildren and is very fond of them. Dr. Smith is a hard-working Georgia orthopedic surgeon who built a substantial family financial legacy during his lifetime. The situation described inheritance planning support in this article is based on a real-life family’s experienc
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You can control the distribution of your assets after death by creating a will or a trust, including a living trust. However, the inability to modify or revoke the trust means that clients must be certain about their estate planning decisions before transferring assets. It also helps clients avoid probate, ensuring a smooth transfer of assets to beneficiaries.
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Whether or not you have a will, your [inheritance planning support](https://git.apture.io/fannylay714704/christie2022/wiki/What-Are-Your-Options-for-Asset-Protection-Before-Retirement%3F) beneficiaries or a named executor may need to go through a court process called probate to distribute your assets. Some assets do not go through this process and instead will be distributed to surviving co-owners or to beneficiaries you designated in advance.
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Draft the Trust Document in Compliance with California Law
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A properly drafted will or trust, prepared with an attorney’s guidance, remains far more reliable than any electronic alternative. While this may seem "outdated" to some, these formalities protect your wishes and your beneficiaries from costly legal battles. For now, California maintains its requirement that wills be written and signed in the presence of two witnesses. Electronic wills may seem convenient, but they forego crucial formalities that exist to ensure certainty and prevent litigatio
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