Estate Planning
Make your wishes known with a clear estate plan.
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Wealth management
A properly structured GRAT can help your clients transfer significant assets to their beneficiaries with no estate tax and a significantly reduced gift tax cost. Help your clients manage the assets they wish to pass to their beneficiaries.
Wealth management
When a client is named as trustee of a friend’s or family member’s trust, they should understand the responsibilities required to fulfill the role so they can make the best decision to accept the role, or not. Learn how you can help a client make the right decision.
Wealth management
Many families look to family wealth meetings to foster good communication and effective decision-making. While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, some best practices can help wealthy families achieve their legacy goals.
Wealth management
Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs) can pass future home appreciation to beneficiaries and ultimately remove the home from the grantor’s estate, potentially reducing estate taxes. Learn how your clients can place a home in a QPRT.
Wealth management
Learn how a properly structured dynasty trust may help investors meet long-term legacy goals while potentially minimizing estate and generation-skipping taxes.
Wealth management
Get your clients’ estate plans ready for the new year. Use this simple year-end checklist with your clients to help them consider what they should plan for.
Wealth management
Under certain circumstances, gifting assets to older generations can be beneficial for estate and income tax planning purposes. Learn when this may be useful in your clients’ estate planning.
Wealth management
Portability is a tool that gives married couples flexibility in planning for potential federal estate tax exposure. Learn how your clients can inherit a tax exemption.
Wealth management
A window of opportunity currently exists to help your clients potentially lock in higher lifetime estate and gift tax exemptions. Use this guide to aid conversations with your clients now to help ensure they are meeting their objectives.