Essential Estate Planning
Specially designed to prepare documents for clients of modest wealth, our Essential Estate Planning is our most cost-effective estate planning and drafting system.
It provides the essentials needed to elevate your practice, and keeps you up-to-date on changes in the law.
Designed to prepare documents for clients of modest wealth, the system helps you manage a large amount of transactional estate planning work using a “smart” collection of Wills, Trusts, ancillary documents, and forms, each one featuring a variety of options to meet most clients’ planning needs and requiring far less time-consuming custom drafting.
Legacy Planning Strategies
- Efficient structuring of Marital, Family, and Descendants Trusts; balancing tax efficiency, family access, and creditor protection
- Tax planning in “decoupled” states (those with independent state death taxes)
- Asset protection strategies using Wills and Revocable Trusts
- Customized estate planning for non-traditional relationships and families
- Redirecting property through powers of appointment
- Maximizing downstream wealth transfer using grantor trusts
- Satisfying clients by creating individual cash legacies in trust
Document Summary
Revocable Trusts
- Separate & Community Property
- State specific options and language
- Different options for fiduciary powers
- Options for unmarried partners available (as well as single and married individuals, including same-sex married couples)
- Executive Summary
- Funding Instructions
- Separate Certificate of Trust
- Practitioner Action Steps Checklist
Irrevocable Trusts
- State specific options and language
- Practitioner Action Steps Checklist
- Fiduciary powers options
- Separate Certificate of Trust
- Executive Summary
- Crummey Notices
Power of Attorney
- State specific forms
Agreements
Wills
- Separate & Community Property
- State specific options and language
- Fiduciary powers options.
- Options for unmarried partners available (as well as single and married individuals, including same-sex married couples)
- Executive Summary