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Estate Planning as Part of Your Financial Plan

How Does Your Estate Plan Connect With Your Financial Life?

Many estate planning decisions involve your finances. Account ownership, beneficiary designations, retirement assets, insurance, investments, and family circumstances can all affect how an estate plan comes together.

At Capital Wealth Management, we help individuals and families in Connecticut organize these financial decisions and coordinate with their estate-planning attorneys.

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Financial Decisions That May Affect Your Estate Plan

Wills, trusts, and powers of attorney provide important legal direction, but the financial details surrounding those documents also need attention. How your accounts are owned, who is named as a beneficiary, and how your retirement assets, investments, insurance, and tax considerations are coordinated can all affect how your estate plan works.


Accounts and Beneficiaries

Reviewing how financial accounts are titled and who is named as a beneficiary on retirement accounts, insurance policies, and other assets.


Retirement and Investment Assets

Considering how retirement accounts, taxable investments, and other assets may pass to a spouse, family members, trusts, or charitable organizations.


Life Insurance and Liquidity

Evaluating whether life insurance or other available resources may help address debts, expenses, taxes, or financial needs following a death.


Family and Charitable Priorities

Considering financial support for children, grandchildren, loved ones with special needs, or charitable organizations as part of your planning.


When Should You Revisit Your Estate Plan?

Estate planning is an ongoing process. Changes in your family, finances, or priorities may affect decisions you made in the past.

An attorney can advise you on whether your legal documents need to change. We can help you review the financial accounts, beneficiary designations, and planning decisions connected to them.

It May Be Helpful to Review Your Plan Following:

Marriage, divorce, or the death of a spouse
The birth or adoption of a child or grandchild
Retirement or another major career change
A significant change in assets or income
New charitable or legacy goals
Starting, selling, or transferring a business
Changes involving a beneficiary or family member
A move to another state

Working With Your Estate-Planning Attorney

Estate planning often involves both legal and financial decisions. Your attorney and financial advisor have different roles, but their work may need to connect.


Your Attorney’s Role

Your attorney prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and other legal documents and provides legal advice based on your circumstances.


Our Role

We help organize the financial information and decisions that may inform your attorney’s work, including accounts, beneficiaries, insurance, investments, and other assets.


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These policies have exclusions and/or limitations. The cost and availability of life insurance depend on factors such as age, health and the type and amount of insurance purchased. As with most financial decisions, there are expenses associated with the purchase of life insurance. Policies commonly have mortality and expense charges. In addition if a policy is surrendered prematurely, there may be surrender charges and income tax implications. Guarantees are based on the claims paying ability of the insurance company.

Raymond James and its advisors do not offer tax or legal advice. You should discuss any tax or legal matters with the appropriate professional.