Estate Planning
Protect Your Legacy: Estate Planning and Management
No financial plan is truly comprehensive without effective estate planning. Let us help you protect and safeguard your legacy’s full potential so it can last for years and generations to come. Protect your assets and ease the burden left on your loved ones. Let’s make a plan, together.
Navigate Complex Estate Planning Issues
The estate planning specialists at Totus Wealth Management are highly experienced and take a personalized, detailed approach to every estate plan. Your specific circumstances are unique, and instances involving complex assets, complex family situations, medical issues or other complicated conditions require a knowledgeable, experienced perspective. We’ll work closely with you and your legal and tax advisors to develop a comprehensive plan to prepare for the complex, the inevitable and the unexpected.
Estate Planning for Today and Tomorrow
Proper estate planning can ensure your loved ones are taken care of down the road, but it can also give you confidence for today, as we’ll help you answer key questions that might otherwise keep you up at night.
Taxes
How can I mitigate the impact of taxes on my estate as it passes to my loved ones? What is taxable and what is not?
Trusts
What do I need to know about trusts, and should I have one? What kind?
Health Care
What health care concerns should I include in my estate planning? Do I need a proxy? An advance healthcare directive?
Power of Attorney
Do I need to assign a power of attorney? And to whom?
Beneficiaries
What will happen to my underage children if something happens to me? And how can I make sure their financial needs are met?
Dependents
How can I protect and provide for my special needs child?
Our Comprehensive Estate Planning Process
Discovery: Identify Your Estate Planning Needs
Once we’ve gathered all the necessary information through our in-depth discovery process, we’ll work closely with your estate planning attorney to develop your legal strategy and a detailed estate plan. This can include your last will and testament, a trust, financial power of attorney and healthcare power of attorney, as well as any advance directives.
Design: Design and Review Your Plan
Once we’ve identified your estate planning needs and devised your estate plan, we’ll review your plan with you in detail, answer your questions and make any necessary adjustments to suit your preferences. Then, we’ll work with your attorney to draft your documents and prepare your estate plan for implementation ensuring that your wishes will be kept.
Maintenance: Keep Your Estate Plans Current
As a Totus client, your custom estate plan is an integral part of your overall, holistic wealth management plan. For this reason, you can trust that we will be vigilant about keeping your estate planning documents up-to-date to reflect the latest changes, ensuring that everything is properly referenced and included.
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