Building a lasting legacy and ensuring your “Baby Money Soldiers®” (BMS) are protected for future generations requires deliberate planning. While many people in the U.S. haven’t yet tackled this crucial task – over 65 percent lack an estate plan – understanding the power of tools like trusts can illuminate the path forward. Estate planning is essentially managing your financial situation in the event of incapacitation or death, seen by attorneys as a “legal toolbox” to manage your affairs both during your life and after you pass away. One of the most vital tools in this box is the trust.
Trusts, particularly a living trust, are highlighted as a key strategy to help your heirs avoid the costly, time-consuming, and public process of probate court. A living trust goes into effect while you are alive and continues after your death, allowing you to maintain control over assets while you live and ensuring they can be easily passed to the next generation without court intervention. Setting one up is considered a fundamental step after creating a will. Other trust types, such as children’s trusts and special needs trusts, offer ways to provide for beneficiaries while maintaining control over asset distribution and potentially preserving eligibility for government benefits. However, it’s important to note that setting up a living trust should not be confused with asset protection from creditors, which requires different strategies.
By implementing trusts as part of your estate plan, you aim to ensure your assets are distributed as you wish, avoid the probate process, clearly define your beneficiaries, and keep your legacy organized. It’s a way to control what happens to your estate and limit potential fighting among family members.
Trusts are central to the idea of protecting and expanding your BMS for the long term. To delve deeper into how trusts fit into creating a happy money, a happy family, and a happy legacy, including discussions on other forms of wealth and the importance of values and skills alongside financial inheritance, download the book.
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