What Should I Know About Estate Planning? Estate planning is the process of making the necessary preparations to ensure that your entire estate is transferred to the intended people when you die. Estate planning is essential, and your family may suffer financially without it.
Tech Bullion’s recent article, “Six Reasons Why Estate Planning is an Essential Part of Life,” highlights why you must consider estate planning immediately.
- Reducing Tax Burdens and Expenses: An estate plan can protect your assets from estate and inheritance taxes imposed by the government. By carefully planning your estate, you can minimize the tax burden and ensure that your assets are transferred to your heirs with as little taxation as possible.
- Keep Control of Asset Distribution: Estate planning allows you to have the authority to choose your inheritors and that your assets are transferred to the right people. Without an estate plan, the court will distribute assets.
- Keep Your Assets from Probate: An effective way to prevent conflicts within your family is by ensuring that your estate doesn’t go through probate. Estate planning approaches let assets pass directly to beneficiaries without court involvement, reducing costs, delays and potential family conflicts.
- Estate Planning Can Protect Beneficiaries: Creating a plan will ensure that beneficiaries receive their rightful inheritance as you desire. A comprehensive estate plan can shield beneficiaries from potential threats like creditors or opportunistic family members who might try to exploit the situation.
- To Prevents Conflict Among Families: Estate planning can prevent family fights from occurring in inheritance disputes. Establishing clear guidelines and expectations for asset distribution among beneficiaries will permit fair treatment of all family members, minimizing the likelihood of arguments or disagreements over the division of the estate in the future.
- Eases the Burden on Loved Ones: Estate planning is an opportunity to leave behind invaluable instructions on how their assets should be managed and divided.
By proactively creating an estate plan, you can ensure that your family is spared from the potential hardships of lack of planning.
To learn more about estate planning in the East Valley, Gilbert, Mesa and Queen Creek, schedule your free consultation with Attorney Jake Carlson by using one of the links above.
Reference: Tech Bullion (May 27, 2023) “Six Reasons Why Estate Planning is an Essential Part of Life”
